Kaizen, Leadership and Operations

Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2020

Guest post from Mark Brown: Leaders in the outdoor leadership space are quite familiar with a wilderness ethic and organization called Leave No Trace. LNT has become the gold standard for organizations who operate in America’s backcountry environments. LNT is not a well-known philosophy beyond the outdoor industry.

Kaizen

Kaizen Travel Guidelines Environment

Hansei and 6 Pitfalls to Avoid in Reflective Exercises

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

Kaizen complements Hansei and ensures that lessons are executed. If you embed reflection as a part of how your team operates, early learning will help them adapt quickly. Also Read: Using Kaizen for Employee Engagement and Improvement. - – - – -. All this is only helpful when it results into a meaningful change.

Kaizen

Kaizen After Action Review Quality Bottom-up

Goldilocks, The Three Bears, And Effective Goal Setting

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e. I’ve always remembered something I read in a book many years ago about the Japanese concept of “ Kaizen &# – small improvements (hence, the little bear). Why would I do such a thing?

Goal

Goal BHAG CPA Kaizen

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Carnival of Human Resources or Leadership Development Carnival ) in that it features a collection of blog posts from various authors that relate to given subject matter. This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you. Enjoy! Ready to improve your management skills? .

Management

Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen

Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. The first-generation of the learning organization reached its nadir with the continuous improvement movement launched by W.

Competitive Advantage

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Learning-by-Doing Technology

Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. One long-standing issue had been relatively poor attendance at weekly chapter meetings.

Deming

Deming TQM Kaizen Class

Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". For example, you could use "continuous improvement" instead of "kaizen." Second: "This new approach is very different from anything you've ever seen before.

Six Sigma

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard

Why Best Practices Haven't Fixed Health Care

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. The only reasonable explanation for this disparity between effort and outcome is that health care leaders are not investing in the right operational changes to achieve excellence in safety, affordability, and capacity.

Health Care

Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations

Hierarchy and Network: Two Structures, One Organization

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

It strives to eliminate anomaly, standardize processes, solve short-term problems, and achieve stopwatch efficiency within its current mode of operating. In fact, many critics point to change management processes, Kaizen initiatives, and the like as evidence that the Hierarchy can do change.

Organization

Organization Kaizen Budgeting Short-term

The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

Human Capital

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy

Good Leaders Don't Use Bad Words

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

That was a distinction with an operational and organizational difference. But the real question confronting leaderships is how much can language alter thoughts and influence behaviors? Communication Innovation Leadership' IBM needed to redesign itself around serving clients, not selling customers. This may be true.

Ulrich

Ulrich Kaizen Competitive Advantage Globalization

Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. That’s because overload is a surmountable crisis—under the right leadership. Fortunately, these failures didn’t spell the end for the company. Codify best practices.

Company

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing. That scares me. This was a precarious time. They are self-motivators.

Training

Training Education Incentives Leadership

5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. Optimizing customer experiences invariably demands internal realignment.

Levitt

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center

Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Leadership and Management. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four.

Covey

Covey Deming Learning-by-Doing Six Sigma

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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Hansei and 6 Pitfalls to Avoid in Reflective Exercises

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Goldilocks, The Three Bears, And Effective Goal Setting

Webinars

Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Why Best Practices Haven't Fixed Health Care

Hierarchy and Network: Two Structures, One Organization

The Case for Investing More in People

Good Leaders Don't Use Bad Words

Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

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