A story told by Jay Goltz to illustrate his strategy for learning from mistakes highlights common errors that many business managers and owners commit. Though Jay’s story takes place in one of his small businesses these errors are indeed common and committed regularly by managers in both small and large companies.
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Mistaken Solution
Posted in Leadership, Management, organizational design, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking, tagged Decision-making, Leadership, Learning, management, organizational design, Quality, relationships, Systems Thinking on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reductionism Can Reduce Everything
Posted in Problem Solving, Systems Thinking, tagged Complexity, Decision-making, management, organizational design, Problem Solving, relationships, Systems Thinking on August 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
What is reductionism? It is the theory and practice of solving problems by placing attention on its simpler constituent parts or components. In other words, solving problems of the whole—which can be quite complex—can be realized by attention to the most important constituent—the one cause or the one outcome—of the whole. Moreover this approach to [...]
Cheating Is No Surprise
Posted in Education, Management, Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Leadership, management, Problem Solving, Quality, Systems Thinking on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Many will acknowledge that while we may not measure what’s important, the important thing becomes what we measure. Why? It keeps us exclusively focused on what in-practice we (often tacitly come to) value.
Bottom-Line on CEO Compensation
Posted in Management, Systems Thinking, tagged Critical Thinking, management, Quality, Systems Thinking on July 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In the business world results matter, especially the results that matters most to (that is benefits) ‘me’! And there are few in a better position to be self-serving than a CEO of a large corporation. In regards to top executive compensation life has been and continues to be good, and more importantly it looks as [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #25
Posted in Leadership, Systems Thinking, tagged Critical Thinking, human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, partnership, relationships, Systems Thinking on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A New York Times interview with Dominic Orr, president and CEO of Aruba Networks, highlights the importance for a leader to understand the organization as a system and to relate to its’ employees as people. Together these two principles are essential for creating a workplace culture that affords high levels of performance.
Lean Understanding
Posted in Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Learning, management, organizational design, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, relationships, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on May 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It is estimated that about 70% of organizations initiating lean programs don’t realize the promised or anticipated success. So it would seem that either lean is a bad idea or lean is not properly understood. Given Toyota’s notable success, I think we’ll go with the latter!
When the First Step is a Misstep
Posted in Problem Solving, Systems Thinking, tagged Complexity, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Problem solving involves many steps, with each requiring decision-making before proceeding to the next toward ultimately resolving the issue. While each step is important, when problems are complex the most critical is the first because it is among the most difficult. In simple or structured problem situations the issue is quite self-evident, but in complex [...]
Statistically Speaking
Posted in Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Education, Leadership, Learning, management, Problem Solving, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking, Variation on March 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Quantum physicists tell us that at the subatomic level there is indeterminacy to the interactions and interconnections of particles—that they do not take place at a definite place and time—and thus (they) exhibit a likelihood of occurring; reality is associated with a statistical probability distribution. In other words, variation is an inherent phenomenon characteristic of [...]
The Worker Is Not the Problem
Posted in Education, Leadership, Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Critical Thinking, Leadership, Learning, management, Problem Solving, Quality, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on March 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
If the education system wasn’t designed to consistently produce the results that it is producing then we wouldn’t be getting the results we are getting! Yet again and again the focus of the reformer is on the teacher, not the system itself. Why? Because it is far easier to turn attention away from what the [...]
Where is the Will
Posted in Leadership, Life, Progress, Systems Thinking, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, human spirit, Leadership, Progress, Systems Thinking on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The demonstrating in Wisconsin—and the likelihood of the same in other states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania—is brought to us by our societal system of orientation.
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