The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 22, 2013

.” However, “it’s something that too few fully appreciate, and too many devote almost no time to developing,” says Jim Kouzes. She held so much promise 30 years ago when people like Warren Bennis, Peter Senge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner first brought her to our attention. What happened to vision? Where has she gone?

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Blanchard Senge Mission Statement Banking 191

QAspire

JUNE 14, 2013

Narayana Murthy being re-instated as Infosys Executive Chairman , where he quotes Luc: “We believe that to really make change happen, changing the reality is of course necessary – this involves developing novel ideas for change, and the implementation of those ideas via project management and measurement, templates and the like.

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Innovation Senge Brainstorming Constraint 85

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Last week’s follow up leadership and culture development webinar is now available for you to review. The session outlined our implementation steps, approaches, and Client examples for leadership, organization, and culture development. Click here to view the Practical Leadership and Culture Development Services webinar.

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Webinar Six Sigma Development Senge 56

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Peter Senge. Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. In my observation, it always seems to come down to how team members communicate with each other; how they manage conflict and; how they examine their successes and more particularly, their failures. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

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Learning Organization Organization Senge Learning-by-Doing 63

Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Watch the full webinar here: Event: Managing in a Disruptive Environment On 18 August, CMI Malaysia hosted our Managing in a Disruptive Environment event. Kudos to all award recipients and shortlisted candidates.

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Project Webinar Blog Learning-by-Doing 52

QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Managing our attention is the key to well being. Whatever we pay attention to develops and it helps to pay attention to thing that truly matter to you. 5 Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge. It is a system that needs careful attention to all its parts working well together. Optimize the whole.

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Self-aware Senge Learning-by-Doing Goleman 128

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. Even Lincoln had to resist the “instantaneous nature of the telegraph.”

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Forrester Organization Power Senge 280

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Daily and consistently, he ships goodness on his blog Execupundit where topics range from self-development, great quotes and book reviews to management insights. 3) The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. “We Michael Wade is one of my favorite bloggers who is just amazing. Michael Wade has nominated me for the “The Booker Award”.

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Books Senge Godin Review 124

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Joshua Macht wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review (published in June) : The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten. 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.

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Deming Senge Management by Objectives Bottom-up 28

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. How they manage conflict. And yet its usefulness is so often diminished because the vision is developed “at the top” of the organization and seldom shared by those who are expected to work toward its achievement. What do you think?

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. It is important to realize that it is virtually impossible to develop a process/approach that will foresee all possible issues organization will face. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 159

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. Get buy-in from top department managers. 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.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

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.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. What Advice do You Have For Developing Servant-Leadership Skills?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 186

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Lately I have been reading more than before, but in the last 10yrs I have invested in my self-development (book, audio, seminars, videos, etc) about 3% my annual income, what it's better is my return, which has been close 10% annual ROI in direct income, plus my ROI on my other investments. Coates, Ph.D., Copyright 2010. since 1987.

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Price ROI Seminar Senge 81

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. He is a mentor to senior management. Additional Information Hank has written numerous articles and several books on a wide range of business and management topics.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free from the tyranny of top-down planning that is instantly out of date.

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Agility Entrepreneur System CEO 70

Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. At that point, what an organization based on Deming management system would want to do is consider if that crisis is an indication of a bad system that we should spend resources to examine and improve. That is a powerful diagram.

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System Deming Crisis Senge 28

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. What Advice do You Have For Developing Servant-Leadership Skills?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 7, 2012

In his most recent book, Action Learning and Breakthrough Problem Solving, co-authored with Roland Yeo and published by Stanford University Press, Michael Marquardt develops in much greater depth core concepts that he explored in previously published books.

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Revans System Action Learning Books 75

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom.

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Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. Middle managers are worrying if they are still needed. You might know all of that, but are you fully embracing it?

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Power Span of Control Senge Media 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. This is why management continues to advocate diversity as integral part of any successful organization.

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Senge Rogers Education Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Of all the definitions, I like Peter Senge''s old but simple one best. Senge''s distinction between detail complexity (driven by the number of variables) and dynamic complexity (heightened by any subtlety between cause and effect) is not only key to explaining why some overhyped tools don''t deliver.

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Senge Definition Tools Drucker 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. Four Steps to Manage Your Crucial Conversations by Steve Knight, via @INSEADKnowledge. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. FT: How to deal with ‘toxic’ workers. How to Orchestrate Your Attitude by @SkipPrichard.

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Senge Market Segmentation Film Self-aware 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

It's a nod to — but a step beyond — Peter Senge's learning organization. The group's responsibilities would begin with measuring, monitoring, and managing that value — but end up with shepherding, guiding, and nurturing it.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15