Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

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. What are the different types of resistance to change that leaders often face?

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Plowing forward without consideration of the changes people have to go through leads to resistance, delays, and added costs. Jobs that focus on process improvement, such as industrial engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, and operations managers, are usually redesigning people’s jobs. Process Improvement.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four.

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. Why do cultures resist change? People resist change that is imposed on them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Many software developers at GE were concerned about reliability and security, which led some of them to resist moving some of the capabilities to the “cloud.” ” Integrating with the Mother Ship.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care. Capitalize on success.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. How did we become such nincompoops? Will it ever stop?

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