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Unconscious and Underlying Beliefs Undermine Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. This model was published in Growing @ the Speed of Change.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.