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The Key to Change is a People Focus

Lead Change Blog

So, they spend time looking at products and services, hierarchies, technologies, job descriptions, roles and responsibilities, rules, and policies, which are the tangible things that are easily grasped and wrestled with to make improvements. I found it in one of my favourite management books, entitled Managing Change and Making It Stick.

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The Flawed “Customer First” Focus (and Other Management Practices to Question)

Michael Lee Stallard

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. In his latest book, Under New Management , David Burkus challenges a number of conventional business practices. Under New Management is well worth reading. Under New Management is well worth reading. You May Also Enjoy: .

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost.

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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The senior management team declined. They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies.

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The Difference Between Great Leaders And Posers

N2Growth Blog

We have created legions of risk managers posing as leaders, when what we need are more leaders who understand how opportunity adds value, shapes culture, attracts talent, and brings about transformative change. As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 10/14/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Michael C.

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