Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. However you show up as a leader is completely predictive of how your team will show up. You couldn’t have two or three, you had to pick one.

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Company Customer Intimacy Schein Long-term 246

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Debriefing requires a team leader to lead the debrief.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” In most cases, the leader of the future won’t know enough to tell people what to do.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images. While the data science team that developed the predictive model may have done a solid job cleaning the training data, it can still be compromised by bad data going forward. Doing so will have the salutary effect of eliminating hidden data factories, saving you time and money in operations as well.

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Tools Schein Objective Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Tell your team about your commitment and ask for their help. Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity.

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Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8