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Deming on Management: Appreciation for a System

Deming Institute

Circle of Influence. The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality by Margaret Wheatley and Peter Senge. The System of Profound Knowledge Applied to Sales and Marketing. Peter Senge on Systems Thinking. The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. Optimize the Overall System Not the Individual Components.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” “But the book doesn't stop there!

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Five Must-Reads for Tackling Complex Problems

Harvard Business Review

It includes stock markets, economic cycles, wars, company fortunes, and career paths. The Fifth Discipline , by Peter Senge. Although Senge's book was first published over 20 years ago, it remains one of the best explanations of this approach to analyzing problems. Systems thinking" is the key.

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

Doing something useful and making meaningful contributions imply that you can be a leader, that you can decide on what to work on, and that you can influence your work — and can make a difference. It turned out that we had won considerable market share during this period because all our projects stayed on track.

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Are You Building Facebook's Empire, Or Your Own?

Harvard Business Review

However, instead of business adopting groundswell thinking, most businesses sought out the tools without the new attitude, seeing them more as a new, cheaper way to get to market rather than a better way to do business altogether. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge.

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