Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Edwards Deming once wrote that a system needed to be managed, for without management the “parts” tend to act in their own interests and “sub-optimize” the system. However, Dr. Deming’s words are only the beginning of the journey to effective systems leadership/management.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Managers don’t have to wait for senior management to start a process of organizational revitalization. ” ~Peter Senge Begin within your own sphere of influence. Leadership is more than just good management practices. You don’t have to wait for senior leaders to make it a better place.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

This list of 28 great quotes to inspire and help manage change may be useful to remind yourself and your coworkers of the needs and benefits that motivate successful people to not only welcome it, but to become advocates and champions for progress. Peter Senge. Leo Tolstoy. Change before you have to”. Jack Welch. Woodrow Wilson.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2019

Thriving in such a world means actively managing your future, learning at the speed of change, making quick sense of big shifts and responding accordingly. Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations. Also Read: 3L’s of Self-Directed Learning: Insights from My TEDx Talk.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 6, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This is the fifth post in our Deming on Management series. View our previous Deming on Management posts: appreciation for a system, the PDSA cycle, psychology and the red bead experiment. Edwards Deming’s ideas.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2014

Kerr is a management consultant and organizational behaviorist. He specializes in strategic planning, corporate transformation and project & program development. For over 20 years, Jim has forged a different type of consulting practice – one that does its engagements “with” its clients, instead of “to” them.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 22, 2013

The video collection also includes a bonus interview with Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability at the MIT Sloan School of Management. I have just learned about a new series of DVD programs, produced by More Than Sound, and hosted by Daniel Goleman.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

One of Senge’s (1994) disciplines of a learning organization is the idea of mental models. Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. Academy of Management Review, 35 (4), 558-578. It’s not different in creativity. Mainemelis, C.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Story Reference: The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. You can also subscribe to updates via email using the section at the bottom of the page. - – – – -. Also Read : Other 100 Word Posts. - – – – -.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 22, 2013

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. By not demonstrating how the vision connects to daily life, what I call “managing the mid-space” – We see her as irrelevant …. What happened to vision? Where has she gone?

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models. I am fascinated by change. Well, not really.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. As new ideas are generated, the require permission and resources from managers, who may not understand the new idea due to their lack of specialized knowledge. Academy of Management Review, 35 (4), 558-578.

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LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2010

The major proponent of systems thinking in organizations is Peter Senge, who views systems thinking as a vital component of a learning organization. Leadership evidence-based management senge' Systems thinking techniques may be used to study any kind of system — natural, scientific, engineered, human, or conceptual.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 31, 2017

I’ll learn the “art and science” of negotiation, and use proven negotiation techniques to collaborate and reach win-win outcomes with my manager, direct reports, peers, suppliers and customers. Work with my manager to come up with a developmental “learn by doing project”. Become a better negotiator. Learn to resolve conflict.

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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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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Peter Senge wrote in his groundbreaking book, The Fifth Discipline , “When we see that to learn we must be willing to look foolish, to let another teach us, learning doesn’t always look so good anymore…Only with the support and fellowship of another can we face the dangers of learning meaningful things.”.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 30, 2011

In his book “The Fifth Discipline”, Peter Senge emphasizes that we need to cultivate “a discipline to see the wholes, a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than snapshots ”.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. Senge also recommended shifting mental models, however he doesn’t go into enough depth about just HOW to do that. I am fascinated by change. Well, not really.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2012

12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner and James Harter (see my blog post on this topic here ). The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life by Marilee Adams (see my blog post on this topic here ). Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Managing our attention is the key to well being. 5 Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge. However, health and wellness is about a consistent daily effort in eating clean, exercising, meditating and sleeping well. It is a system that needs careful attention to all its parts working well together. Optimize the whole.

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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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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. 10 Responses to Leaders and the Learning Organization Bret Simmons November 22, 2010 at 1:10 am I am a HUGE Senge fan. The principles of Senge’s book were important when he first wrote them and are important now.

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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.

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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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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. We are here to serve you, the Members of the Chartered Management Institute.

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. Peter Senge has done some amazing work on organization development and systems thinking. QAspire Blog was featured in Management Improvement Carnival Blog Review by Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership Blog.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Management and Leadership Development – strengthening supervisory, management, and executive skills around an XYZ model of managerial competencies. So accountability and performance management of those at the end of the product or service chain is highly demotivating and unproductive. People are often the symptom carriers.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Harpst's book is the first book I’ve read that takes the best education from (Good To Great, E-Myth Manager, others) and combines them into one book. Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). Not so much “read”, as “used.” ” (Ethan Johnson, The Vision Thing).

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. DMS : Trust and vulnerability are keys to “Energy Management” Not to sound too 19th or 20th Century, but trusting is efficient… and effective. Energy Management raises the issue of perfection.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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LDRLB

JULY 13, 2010

This research would never be published in a leading peer-reviewed management or organizational psychology publication. Deming, Bob Sutton, Jeff Pfeffer, Peter Senge, Warren Bennis, Peter Drucker, etc.) Prahalad, who I consider a giant among management thinkers. In fact, their research is full of halos and seriously flawed.

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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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