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Untangling the Accountability, Systems, and Process Management Knot

The Practical Leader

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Accountability is a mess in many organizations.

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How Team Leaders Can Improve Problem Solving Skills With a Clear Process

Great Results Team Building

Fishbone Diagram: The Fishbone Diagram, also known as the Cause-and-Effect Diagram, is a visual tool that helps identify potential causes by categorizing them into different branches. The main categories typically include people, process, equipment, materials, environment, and management.

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Vital Keys to Leading a Fast, Flexible, and Agile Organization

The Practical Leader

Line Management Led. Reactive Management, and Search for Guilty/Weaknesses. Reactive Management, and Search for Guilty/Weaknesses. Proactive Root Cause Analysis and Search for Systemic Changes/Strengths. Measurement and Performance Management Gaming. Experts/Specialist Led. Integrated/Interconnected.

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10 Things I Learned from a Training Program That I Still Use Today

Great Leadership By Dan

?????. Kodak European Management Development Program. How to do a root cause analysis and a structured process for making decisions. It’s an interesting exercise in that it made me think about if I was designing a training curriculum for managers, what skills would be the most important to include? How to listen.

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Leadership Lessons From The Seven Arts Of Change

Eric Jacobson

Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. Listening : Organizations that evidence compassion listen to each other in order to understand and connect to more effective outcomes, not in order to place blame or assert their own way of doing things.

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Moose on the Loose: Three Reasons for Using This Symbol of Communication Barriers

The Practical Leader

One mine manager declared moose season open and went “moose hunting” by keeping a ‘trophy board’ (bulletin board) of moose killed (issues or problems reduced). A particularly bad example happened during a workshop of about fifty supervisors and managers in a large company. It was all downhill from there.

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 2 – Causal Analyses

Strategy Driven

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast.