Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Focus on what you and your team can do, and offer to help your manager and co-workers. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. Don’t bad mouth your manager, your company, your competition, the government or your co-workers. Don’t point fingers, make excuses, or look for pity or a bailout.

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Kaizen Leadership Committee Short-term 120

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. These organizations help form teams with a better understanding of their work and system, instead of a department just being a collection of individuals.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

As individuals, teams and organizations, how much we learn from our past is critical for our improvement and future success. This may sound like common-sense but how many organizations/teams really do Hansei effectively? Kaizen complements Hansei and ensures that lessons are executed. Photograph By: Tanmay Vora.

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Kaizen After Action Review Quality Bottom-up 152

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. A well-run sprint takes talented, cross-functional team members out of their daily routines and focuses them in weekly increments on creating breakthroughs in products or processes.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2012

In Standardization is the first step to innovation , Alan Kay Wrote, “…every team is different. I agree that the emphasis may be different for different teams and industries. I think you have to take the principles and practices you mention, align them with the goals of the organization and decide where to place the emphasis.

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Innovation Company Retail Process 111

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline. These teams have disciplined processes to get the technology to market, generally with a one- to two-year product horizon.

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Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. While it may be heresy to say this, recent evidence from Japan and elsewhere suggests that it's time to question these methods. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

In fact, many critics point to change management processes, Kaizen initiatives, and the like as evidence that the Hierarchy can do change. All of this has led me to believe that the successful organization of the future will have two organizational structures: a Hierarchy, and a more teaming, egalitarian, and adaptive Network.

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Organization Kaizen Budgeting Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Though charmingly valuable, Kaizen and suggestion boxes are 20th-century productivity anachronisms. The team leaders and managers who oversee them will confront comparable demands on that auto-automation ingenuity. Twenty-first century smartphones and tablets create radically different expectations around workforce efficiency.

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Kaizen Bottom-up Efficiency Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

You and Your Team. Organizations that care about Kaizen , or the process of continuous improvement, and facilitating effective feedback will make “accs” a way to make sure that their people have the power to (self) improve. In other words, effective feedback requires effective feedback. Giving and Receiving Feedback.

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Kaizen Self-aware Construction Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The issue is less how any given individual "understands" an innovative idea or technique than how the team or group translates it into their own language. Consequently, I'm always looking for easy opportunities to hear, see or experience how my "expertise" gets translated and interpreted for a lager team or group.

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Innovation Workshop Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 15

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 53

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing. “Leading by example means never asking your team to do something you aren’t willing to do yourself,” Webb writes. This was a precarious time.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Crudely put, instead of looking to double the productivity of one thousand people, management asked how small, dedicated teams could have 10 times the impact on the contact center’s most challenging customer segments and problem sets. Which user experiences consistently generate the best returns?

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. When complaints to elected officials started mounting from property developers dissatisfied with delays, Girard pulled together a team from many divisions to address the problem.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

You and your founding team used to feel like members of the same small tribe; now you’re working with unfamiliar layers of staff hired from companies whose culture is not like yours. You used to know your key customers by their first names; now you know them only as averages on PowerPoint slides. Celebrate and reward frontline heroes.

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

The conversation regurgitated cliché after customer-centric product cliché until the moment the team rejected and replaced the facilitator''s language. Maerki similarly observed that IBM soon stopped using "committee" in favor of "team" — another word-swap that ultimately had meaningful managerial impact.).

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Ulrich Kaizen Innovation Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Manage performance by engaging a team of first line sales managers who can effectively direct sales activity and keep the sales force on course. Excellent sales forces continuously improve capability around every sales force effectiveness driver through "kaizen."

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Kaizen Incentives Market Segmentation Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When Sir Dave Brailsford became head of British Cycling in 2002, the team had almost no record of success: British cycling had only won a single gold medal in its 76-year history. Sir Dave now leads Britain’s first ever professional cycling team, which has won three of the last four Tour de France events.

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Kaizen Critical Success Factor Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

And yet too many managers see a lack of innovation in their companies and lament their teams’ “lack of creativity.” ” This happens not just at the individual, but also the team and organizational level. Failure to build teams: It is often said that there are no statues to committees.

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Creativity Team Kaizen Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Teams are now required to describe and share “the most innovative thing we are doing for this engagement.” Another clear difference is that these kaizen efforts, unlike their Japanese predecessors, are more customer-in than internal-process-out. ” Expensive? Influential? That’s the bet.

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Innovation Company Kaizen KPI 8