The Practical Leader

MARCH 19, 2012

This framework covers six core areas: Structural Design, Roles and Collaboration Mechanisms, Processes and Tools, Leadership, People and Engagement, and Culture and Change. And 82% listed “employee motivation” increasing in importance with 83% topping the list with “leadership performance.”

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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. Leadership and Management. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. ” Want More? Subscribe to our mailing list today!

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

Resist the temptation to push for a lot of task-oriented work at the initial meeting. Team Building meaning allowing the team to know why it is together; working through a purposeful process to develop trust early on, and building the team to have shared expectations and knowledge of what to do and how to do it.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In one large consumer products firm, for example, hundreds of managers went through programs on “change leadership,” “lean six sigma,” “prioritization and alignment,” and so on over several years. The business environment changes too fast for any strategy to be perfect at the start.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. We still believe that the essence of leadership is about influencing others to do what we want them to do. Our leadership measures and language also illustrate this gap.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. These leaders resist the idea of learning from exemplars outside of health care.

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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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