Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The above quote is how I think about work with organizations, teams and the people who support them. Images Leadership Leadership Coaching Organization Development Solution-Focused Team Building making teams better michael cardus senge small changes into large results systems drive behavior systems theory'

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

For organizational teams and for individuals, it is the ability to change and grow and adapt to new circumstances, teammates, challenges that determines our competitive advantage. Peter Senge. Change is a continuous and ongoing process. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”. - Leo Tolstoy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 31, 2017

My unwillingness or inability to let go is causing me to work long hours, preventing me from having the time to be more strategic, and is retarding the development of my team. Is it a lack of confidence in my team? I need to spend more time coaching and developing my team. Develop my team. Is it my own ego? Lead Change.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 25, 2012

Since the 1990’s when Peter Senge popularized the notion of “learning organizations,” there has been a lot of discussion about attributes of great companies. I nstead of focusing solely on where they are taking their organization, leaders are better served to first think about what kind of organization they are building.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Peter Senge. Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. Each of the Learning Organization components, personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision and systems thinking allow for the opportunity to create lives and organizations that are resilient, flexible, inclusive and dynamic.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Scientist Peter Senge wrote about how success messes with our ability to reason. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt notes that our minds “unite us into teams, divide us against other teams, and blind us to the truth.”. Accept as a fundamental premise that different isn’t wrong, just different.

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Experience to Lead

JULY 22, 2022

Remote work and the pandemic have also shifted our methods of communication and collaboration, causing teams that didn’t adjust well to be less effective. These skills have become especially necessary in growing tech industries, where up-and-coming leaders are talented but lack the communication techniques required to inspire strong teams.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 15, 2012

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Amy C. Edmondson Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) Why and how the most valuable organizational learning occurs: through teams Amy Edmondson characterizes “teaming” as “teamwork on the fly.”

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Peter Senge wrote in his groundbreaking book, The Fifth Discipline , “When we see that to learn we must be willing to look foolish, to let another teach us, learning doesn’t always look so good anymore…Only with the support and fellowship of another can we face the dangers of learning meaningful things.”. Guest Post mentoring'

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. Each of the Learning Organization components, personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision and systems thinking allow for the opportunity to create lives and organizations that are resilient, flexible, inclusive and dynamic.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2015

The cost of solving these problems after they grow big is often very high – sometimes, as high as losing a customer or your key team members! The key is to see (and let your team see) those repercussions through the understanding of the system. Keep the team together. What are the enablers of proactive leadership?

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QAspire

MARCH 8, 2015

But when you look at the whole system, you might figure out that the real root cause is in something which is immeasurable yet important – may be, collaboration with other teams or how you sell. As Peter Senge says in his book “ The Fifth Discipline ”. We optimize the silos and the whole misses our radar.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Edwards Deming sent Peter Senge on his book, and which Senge included in his introduction to the Fifth Discipline : Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. He quotes from the response W.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

Insights were shared in terms of how project management, as a skill and as a distinct role, can benefit the organisation by driving teams towards achieving goals despite continuous disruption. Watch the highlights now: CMI Malaysia 2022 AGM The 5th CMI Malaysia AGM took place on 6 October at the KL Hilton.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

They create teams and structures where people are driven (and sometimes forced) to work harder when problems occur. Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. You can form small focus group from your current team and improve in small iterations.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As Peter Senge stated in his classic systems thinking book, The Fifth Discipline , “ when placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.” Does the full organization need to be involved from the top executive team right down the organization? People are often the symptom carriers.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

To create great music you need an ensemble — a trio, quartet, basically a team of players with complementary strengths, skills and vulnerabilities and a willingness to listen to each other and a common goal. Peter Senge ); use the same language (e.g., No instrument can play everything. Build on the same shared mental models (e.g.,

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LDRLB

JULY 13, 2010

It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use. (p. Deming, Bob Sutton, Jeff Pfeffer, Peter Senge, Warren Bennis, Peter Drucker, etc.) Here are some of my favorite short quotes from the book: It isn’t how much you know that matters.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

Vital sources of information will include present and potential customers, suppliers, team members, cross-divisional peers, direct reports, managers, other members of the organization, researchers, and thought leaders (see Figure 23.1). Peter Senge has written extensively about the future importance of the learning organization.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 30, 2012

There are four teams remaining before a champion is crowned. Normally on Friday, I share a quotation; then provide questions to ponder, action steps and my thoughts about that quotation. Today, we acknowledge what many Americans are thinking about and will be watching tomorrow – the men’s NCAA Final Four.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. An elected, rank-and-file police officer, is added to the chief’s management team. Discuss and ask employees; get feedback from them.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

Related: Peter Senge on Systems Thinking – Building a Great Software Development Team – Deming 101: Understanding Systems. I found it very helpful in figuring out how to get the largest leverage within a system (or the change most important to make in a system to achieve great leverage).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Learning organizations – Peter Senge’s term — classically focus on intellectually oriented issues such as knowledge and expertise. Instead, it may be more effective to focus on creating a culture of growth. A culture is simply the collection of beliefs on which people build their behavior.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). by Peter Senge. By Jim Collins. By Patrick M. 2) Fear of conflict. ” 10.

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QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2018

You will tap into diverse ideas and viewpoints only when you have people with diverse thinking patterns on your team. Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations. This starts with hiring decisions. Don’t hire people whose beliefs are compliant with yours. Attend to data and evidences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

While I was there, a team of engineers had implemented some of the standard microprocessor architectures on the programmable logic fabric, but the performance was not very good. Extraordinary and innovative results are possible when employees are passionate about their job, team, work, and the company. Community matters.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

While the importance of compassion at work has long been touted by scholars like Peter Senge , Fred Kofman , Jane Dutton and others as a foundational precept of good management, managers of the traditional, critical, efficiency-at-all-costs stripe have scoffed. At Wisdom 2.0,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

It's a nod to — but a step beyond — Peter Senge's learning organization. And the wisdom group's lifeblood wouldn't be in the hands of a finance team — but in the hands of what you might call a significance team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. You and Your Team Series. In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever. The same thing happens in business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. You Might Have a Dysfunctional Team If. How to Orchestrate Your Attitude by @SkipPrichard. From @JohnBaldoni Using Fear To Trump Reason. I in Leadership by Nigel Nicholson via @LBS. The Need for Entrepreneurial Leadership by Randel Carlock via @INSEADKnowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One of the issues lies in the seniority given to the social web team at various companies. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge. In the opening chapter, Senge describes a very broken beverage company whose production doesn't talk with its promotion or its sales team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

When I'm advising start-up teams nowadays, I ask a lot of questions around those three areas. Quite often, the teams I'm talking with think culture is some woo-woo stuff that doesn't make any difference in the end, or even if they think it does matter, they have an excruciatingly hard time describing what theirs is.

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