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7 Types of Waste Productivity Leaders Eradicate

Nathan Magnuson

” But consider the following business scenario: if your operating profit is 10% and you are able to eliminate enough waste to lower your costs by 10%, your profits will nearly double without earning any addition revenue. You don’t need to be in a profit-producing role or be Six Sigma certified to be a productivity leader.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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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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015: How to Deal with Resistance to Change | Featuring Megan Burns

Engaging Leader

Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. How do you get both production workers and knowledge workers to implement continuous improvement?

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

Strategy Driven

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7 ! Name and address information required.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

Strategy Driven

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 !

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. We are no longer living in that world.

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