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What Accounts for the Accountability Mess?

The Practical Leader

Many of us have been lashed with the accountability whip wielded by a blundering manager playing “gotcha games.” Click here to peruse a series of research and resources on this approach, including how to How to Avoid Spinning into the 360 Degree Feedback Death Spiral. Accountability is highly subjective.

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5 Concepts That Will Help Your Team Be More Data-Driven

Harvard Business Review

Fortunately managers, aided by a senior data scientist engaged for a few hours a week, can introduce five powerful “tools” that will help their existing teams start to use analytics more powerfully to solve important business problems. Meeting start times are just one example. Source: Thomas C. And problems remain.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. But before that can happen, we have to understand why data has failed to catch on in change management to date.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

How to apply the model. Root cause analysis. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools.

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To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

Harvard Business Review

We turn to productivity tools or apps that promise to help us manage mounting pressures or we look for ways to alleviate our discomfort: find a different job, hire a new employee to take on an increased workload, or switch careers. Understand the root causes. Analysis alone isn’t enough.

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10 Things I Learned from a Training Program That I Still Use Today

Great Leadership By Dan

?????. Kodak European Management Development Program. How to design and facilitate meetings. How to address a performance issue with an employee. How to listen. How to deal with conflict. How to do a root cause analysis and a structured process for making decisions.

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Leadership Lessons From The Seven Arts Of Change

Eric Jacobson

Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. Listening : Organizations that evidence compassion listen to each other in order to understand and connect to more effective outcomes, not in order to place blame or assert their own way of doing things.