Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2015

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.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

“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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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 23, 2018

Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. 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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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. Leadership Books Leadership Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management' It is also the single greatest source of establishing unity from top to bottom and bottom to top.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 15, 2017

Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. 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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 18, 2021

Guest Post By Sarah Hiner. We all like quick fixes. Got a rash? Apply some cream to make it go away. If it still doesn’t go away, apply a stronger steroid cream—that will “fix it.” When a child is crying, give him or her a pacifier or a treat to quiet him down. For an older child, hand him a screen—he will be quiet. Problem solved.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 26, 2024

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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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

This too shall pass” From Bolt-On Programs to Built-In Culture Change Hundreds of studies over the decades have shown that 50 – 70 percent of improving customer service levels, restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, introducing new technologies, performance management systems, leadership training, and the like fail.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 15, 2012

Organizations without processes never thrive. Effective and efficient processes create platforms that enable, enhance, and evaluate both individual and organizational performance. What’s your systematic process for achieving breakthroughs, living transparently, or solving problems? Powerful processes: Eliminate drama. Prevent distractions.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 1, 2019

Scenario: a product development team at a medical device company had a testing phase that ran far longer than expected. This delay rippled throughout the project and had serious implications downstream. After the project was complete, the team leader wanted to go back and figure out why the test phase had not gone as planned.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Fortunately managers, aided by a senior data scientist engaged for a few hours a week, can introduce five powerful “tools” that will help their existing teams start to use analytics more powerfully to solve important business problems. Fortunately, virtually everyone can make a positive impact here. And problems remain.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Root cause analysis. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools. Cause and effect diagram.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the next session, we did some root cause analysis and looked for low-hanging fruit – the solutions you can test fairly quickly. When we finished, we had a picture. That picture helped us develop some themes – which showed us that while the situation seemed complex, it wasn’t overwhelming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

First, senior management should decide on the business goal for an analytics initiative and the key performance indicators to track that will put them on the right path toward success. Develop a robust root cause analysis capability. They are not left alone to develop root cause analysis insights in a vacuum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

” First, senior management should decide on the business goal for an analytics initiative and the key performance indicators to track that will put them on the right path toward success. Develop a robust root cause analysis capability. They are not left alone to develop root cause analysis insights in a vacuum.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. But before that can happen, we have to understand why data has failed to catch on in change management to date.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We turn to productivity tools or apps that promise to help us manage mounting pressures or we look for ways to alleviate our discomfort: find a different job, hire a new employee to take on an increased workload, or switch careers. Analysis alone isn’t enough. But these solutions are often temporary and ineffective.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Steve, a portfolio manager for a major mutual fund company, understood that his company monitored internet use of all employees. I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. We managed to pull together most of the missing data, and the client didn’t notice the difference.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Root cause analysis. But it’s already clear that machine-reengineering has the power to help manage the data deluge — and resulting bottlenecks — that modern organizations face. Workers can become more efficient and effective, which improves workflows as well as the bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of us have been lashed with the accountability whip wielded by a blundering manager playing “gotcha games.” Swinging the Performance Management Stick What’s your experience with performance reviews? Theory X managers use performance management ratings to “hold people accountable.”

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Wholistic approaches focus on interconnections and cause-and-effect relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The manager’s answer: “I don’t want to be a Chicken Little about this.” First, Maryann Keller, a former auto analyst, notes that, historically, GM hasn’t invested in root-cause analysis. So it had to use the washer fluid itself to cool down.”

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