The Practical Leader
MARCH 13, 2024
In production environments, many systems are obstacles to improving productivity, safety, or quality. ” Functional managers and their teams are accountable, rated, and rewarded for doing their own jobs inside their siloed segment of the production, delivery, or support process. Who Are Your Systems Serving?
Experience to Lead
JULY 22, 2022
With increased automation and advanced technology (including artificial intelligence), skills that were once considered critical competencies are often nullified within five years. Leaders who build these human-centric workplaces can inspire higher productivity, leading to a greater output, talent pool and overall performance.
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Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Some organizations he has studied have adopted a no internal e-mail Friday policy and other ways to temporarily disconnect from technology.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2010
Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision. Many of the poor decisions I've made and have witnessed other leaders make stemmed from 'attacking' phantom problems.
Mills Scofield
APRIL 15, 2014
The Lean Startup movement encourages a Minimal Viable Product (MCP), building what’s critical and leaving the non-critical for a later. Peter Senge ); use the same language (e.g., Technology does not do much in a complex interaction (per McKinsey´s articles on interaction). Trusting is efficient and effective.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
He noted how Singapore Agency for Science, Technology & Research ( A*STAR ) has told P&G that sustainability is "no longer a program, it is part of how we do our work.". A*STAR Managing Director Low Teck Seng used that phrase to describe how Singapore appears on a map. Simplifying technology and new business models."
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2012
What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. Their implementation was about 10 times faster than our existing product.
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