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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. To break away from the lemmings, give these techniques a try. Use plain language to describe what you are trying to accomplish. I drive a Fiat 500.

Six Sigma

Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Open-book

The Role of Research

LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2011

Solid research takes a long time to bring to the public; from the design of the study to the final presentation in a peer-reviewed journal is a process that can take years. This process also seems to turn the research into an esoteric language that only other academics can speak.

Ryan

Ryan Peer Review Ethics Survey

The Role of Research

LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2011

Solid research takes a long time to bring to the public; from the design of the study to the final presentation in a peer-reviewed journal is a process that can take years. This process also seems to turn the research into an esoteric language that only other academics can speak.

Ryan

Ryan Peer Review Review Information

Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

A month after the outbreak started, 164 scientific papers were already available on PubMed with many more papers undergoing peer review. They’ve set up a Covid-19 platform to share information with and among research institutes to develop better testing kits, drugs, and a vaccine.

Crisis

Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe

A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. I co-conducted a professional peer review of a nearly identical campus on the west coast (size, structure, unions, facilities, budget, number of staff). Our real problem was we were not holding our leaders and staff accountable.

Leadership

Leadership Training Budgeting Peer Review

Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

The set of such methods, tested by peer review of their scientific foundations and success with their application, is actually quite small — and familiar to most business school graduates. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research.

Kahneman

Kahneman Game Theory Committee Analysis

Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

To understand how the current political instability in Egypt will affect the NPV of a foreign subsidiary located there, we should first establish a no-instability benchmark, which assumes that the operation there will generate the same level of profitability (adjusted for inflation) for the rest of time. Vinod K.

NPV

NPV Short-term Discount Politics

Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

Google’s operation stands out for its scale. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes. Together, the automated testing and peer review provide a high level of quality control that frees Google developers to actually work on the needed changes themselves.

Products

Products Productivity Development Software

Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

length of stay, post-operative recovery profile) combined with cost data may be the most effective solution. Only then will we see improved clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. Ensuring that physicians have a strong voice in determining which data to share will help create alignment and trust.

Guidelines

Guidelines Health Care Survey Cost

Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists. Change practitioners struggle to reach the levels of proof that are standard in other professions.

Marketing

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain

Here’s What Mindfulness Is (and Isn’t) Good For

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The tricky thing about trying to interpret research about mindfulness is that many studies that claim great things for mindfulness are less rigorous than others, even though they may be peer reviewed. That’s why when we are anxious or angry we can’t think so well. You and Your Team Series. Resilience.

Stress

Stress Peer Review Short-term Bottom-up

Were OkCupid’s and Facebook’s Experiments Unethical?

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In most companies, you have to get approval from various operational functions, as well as legal and public relations teams, especially if the results are going to be made public. So the studies don’t go through the valuable peer-review process, and the findings don’t see the light of day.

Ethics

Ethics Participative Peer Review Learning-by-Doing

Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

Loyalty

Loyalty Peer Review Efficiency Call Center

Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. In essence, TSC is a data amalgamator, gathering the best peer-reviewed science on the lifecycle impacts and “material” environmental and social issues for a given product category.

Products

Products Productivity Supply Chain Kaplan

The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

And at Björn Borg, their key performance indicators have improved after Bunge was brought in as CEO : net sales increased by 27% between 2013 and 2016, and operating profits tripled. It is true that numerous studies have established a positive link between physical exercise and cognitive performance.

CEO

CEO Company Sports Fashion

Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 30, 2011

In management as well as team development humans and behaviors do not operate in the same short term cause-effect process that machines do. There are secondary sources (academic journals, peer reviewed articles, existing Body of Knowledge, etc…) that are applicable and provide evidence for what you are doing.

Team Building

Team Building Team Leadership Peer Review

Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

One member of the RSC Facebook group told us that participating in RSC provides “collaborative input on my own patients and cases from ‘experts’” and reveals “operative options that I hadn’t considered.”

Media

Media Skills Conference Learning-by-Doing

How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The company has promoted a culture of health for more than 30 years, with countless peer-reviewed studies showing that employees’ health has improved and company costs have been contained. This, of course, takes time and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Asking for help.

Planning

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term

How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s harder for politicians to operate if everyone is on the same page. All managers are reviewed by their teams, and that feedback goes to the managers’ bosses. Reviews also come in from colleagues in other functions. Be open and transparent, and create opportunities for voices to be heard.

Politics

Politics Tactics Review Learning-by-Doing

Leadership Digital

Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

The Role of Research

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The Role of Research

Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Here’s What Mindfulness Is (and Isn’t) Good For

Were OkCupid’s and Facebook’s Experiments Unethical?

Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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