Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Guest post from Sandy Coletta: I know what you are thinking - a lemming is a follower and by its very definition, a leader isn’t a follower. Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To The trappings: Look in your driveway.

Six Sigma 209

Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Open-book 209

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. A classic example was the old Bell System.

Follow-up 147

Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Doctrine is the military's mechanism for managing the fog of war, pushing decision-making closer to the ground while providing the lines to guide decision-making and action. So Special Operations went with a third option.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Guidelines Objective Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. It's definitely not a learning organization.

Company 8

Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9