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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2015

Leading Blog

Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno : What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System by Takehiko Harada. Backstabbers and Bullies : How to Cope with the Dark Side of People at Work by Adrian Furnham. The Achievement Habit : Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth.

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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2016

Curious Cat

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people? – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2015

Curious Cat

– Taiichi Ohno. Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. – Taiichi Ohno. The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people? – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno.

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Break the Cycle

Deming Institute

In appreciation of systems, Ackoff offered advice on how to steer past the time-honored traps that prevail in our traditional mechanistic thinking, which can lead us to narrowly judge efforts as either wasteful or non-value-added. And, with what context or system is such a judgment made?

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Using Technology to Improve The Sharing of Knowledge

Curious Cat

The knowledge of how to properly experiment on system with multiple important factors to experiment with (nearly all experiments) has been around for almost 100 years. Yet, even so, still many college level courses talk about the need to adjust one factor at a time (OFAT) and many businesses still experiment this way. will help a great deal.