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Long Term Implementation of Quality Teams Within Organizations

Mike Cardus

Long Term Implementation of Lean Six Sigma within Organizations from Michael Cardus. Whether you use Lean Six Sigma within your organization or not, this content will prove valuable to you…. Leadership Team Review. Pitfalls in Six Sigma Teams. Successful Implementation Requires Follow-Up.

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What's Holding You Back? A Call for Gutsy Leadership

Leading Blog

In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. I think we are seeing too much of this core issue and what we end up with is operational complexity and lack of innovation and forward momentum. Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. But we have also reached the outer edges of success through incremental improvements in quality. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. The benefits were significant.

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Overcoming Leadership Myopia

Michael Lee Stallard

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities.

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Quality Team and Leadership Development

Mike Cardus

Quality Leadership Development from Michael Cardus. Highlighting that systems-drive-behavior , there is no special ‘leadership personality’ … Within any team when someone is great at their role people see them as a leader. Competence = Comfort = Observed Leadership Behaviors. Competence = Comfort = Observed Leadership Behaviors.

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Ditch ‘Change Fatigue’ and Embrace Continual Evolution

Center for Creative Leadership

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma.

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Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Teams

Mike Cardus

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. The slide show information for the workshop I am facilitating with for the 2010 ASQ Buffalo Lean Six Sigma Conference.

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