In a New York Times interview Andrew M. Thompson, co-founder and C.E.O of Proteus, spoke about how he advances the capability of his company by creating and maintaining what he calls “ a leadership culture as opposed to a management culture.” As Andrew noted, “culture in our company is a really big deal, and we [...]
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Hidden Lessons in Leadership #29
Posted in Leadership, organizational design, Quality, Relationships, tagged Culture, human spirit, Leadership, Learning, organizational design, partnership, Quality, relationships on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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.
Leading With Vision
Posted in Leadership, Management, Progress, Quality, tagged Change, Complexity, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Learning, management, Progress, Quality, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A New York Times article, Lessons in Longevity From I.B.M., by Steve Lohr used IBM reaching the 100-year old mark to call attention to practices that contribute to an organization’s longevity. A noteworthy point made is that past success can impede future success. The article seems to suggest that all companies will lose their dominance [...]
Why Educate
Posted in Education, Life, tagged Critical Thinking, Development of Self, human spirit, Learning on June 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Why educate? For cognitive development! We see ourselves as intelligent beings and therefore we see the need to use our intellect to acquire knowledge in support of cognitive development. Operationally education involves disseminating facts from within various subjects/disciplines and then testing for retention and recall, with the percent passing a test being the indicator of [...]
Making Quality in America
Posted in Economy, Progress, Quality, tagged Economy, Leadership, Learning, management, Progress, Quality on May 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
In his New York Times column, Paul Krugman, spoke of a hint of the return of American manufacturing. In this column Mr. Krugman mentioned that Michigan which had an unemployment rate of 14.1% in August 2009 is now experiencing the improved rate of 10.3%, and as Krugman noted “still above the national average, but nonetheless [...]
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!
Replace Performance Reviews with Leadership for Quality
Posted in Leadership, Management, Quality, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, Quality, relationships, Statistical Thinking, Variation on May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A recent issue of Knowledge@Wharton indicates, that while 91% of companies worldwide have performance appraisals only 35% to 40% do performance reviews well. The question remains, what does doing them well mean? What are the criteria for the performance of performance reviews? Can performance reviews (as we’ve come to know and love them) really be [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #24
Posted in Leadership, Management, tagged human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, Quality, relationships on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What does Mark Fuller, CEO of WET Design, do to foster a collaborative and creative culture? Given that people are far more creative when they actually share ideas with each other, Mark focuses on developing skillful listening. Quite creatively Mark uses improvisation classes as a means to this end. Why?
Is This the Way We Want to Roll?
Posted in Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, Education, human spirit, Learning, Moral Values, Progress on April 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Like all other animals we are equipped with the capacity for sight smell taste touch and hearing as ways of sensing the immediate environment. So as long as danger and opportunity are within arms’ reach, earshot, in line of sight or so close we could taste them we can react to them quite well.
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