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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

Improvement – In the effects domain, managers often look for steps to improve the appearance of their P&L results, yet no real, underlying change takes place. For example, a manager might delay travel or defer other expenses in the last weeks of a quarter to create the appearance of lower operating costs, thus a better bottom line.

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Preview Thursday: Total Value Optimization

Lead Change Blog

Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. Bowen is the Chairman and CEO of Maine Pointe , a firm specializing in driving EBITDA and cash improvements across the areas of procurement, operations, and logistics to enable growth.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. We prioritized how to move the industry forward as a more mainstream, P&L-focused business. With each decision, we asked ourselves what’s the best way to do something and could we make it even better.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

This ‘camouflage’ approach ensures that change agents operate seamlessly within the organization, making their efforts more effective and less susceptible to dismissal. link] Williams, P. Form Strategic Alliances to Amplify Voices In any power dynamic, there is strength in numbers. Organizational Dynamics , 35 (2), 150–160.

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How to Keep Your Team Agile and Aligned Under Pressure

Strategy Driven

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency). However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed.

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More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality

LDRLB

CEOs could enlist individuals who posses these traits for their top management teams and could give them prominent roles in specific strategic domains…Venture capitalists could use these personality measurements in predicting the success of SMEs operating in dynamic industries and thus, in making investment decisions (p. Simmons, Ph.D.

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Students ran operations. Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p. Parents were patrons.

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