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7 Roles of an Exceptional Team Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

Your strategy is only as strong as the ability to execute at the frontline. You can have all the great plans, six sigma workouts, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence, and creativity to pull it off, you’re back to muddling through.

Six Sigma 503
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Approaching Process Optimization from a Modern Perspective

Strategy Driven

It’s a good idea for any leader to familiarize themselves with modern optimization methodologies – Lean and Six Sigma being perhaps the biggest contenders on that front. Advanced Optimization Methodologies.

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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

A while ago, Rosabeth Moss Kanter wrote a short but profound post about execution for Strategy & Business magazine entitled Our Ten Most Enduring Ideas. Today, companies don’t need new ideas in the same way they did 25 years ago (although they still need new business strategies).

Execution 101
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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 3 – An Interview with Forrest Breyfogle, author of Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics

Strategy Driven

Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics : Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume II – Business Deployment : A Leaders’ Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. About the Author.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. Strategy guru Gary Hamel wrote in the Harvard Business Review: “Corporations around the world are reaching the limits of incrementalism. The benefits were significant.

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015: How to Deal with Resistance to Change | Featuring Megan Burns

Engaging Leader

Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting.

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What's Holding You Back? A Call for Gutsy Leadership

Leading Blog

This is accomplished by putting three things in place: “a clear vision with impact, aggressive strategies to achieve that vision, and a defined way of measuring success.” In a section titled, “Creativity and Six Sigma don’t Mix,” Herbold writes: Innovation is not an orderly process. It’s also a very fragile process.

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