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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. Roger introduced me to the concept of the organisational iceberg.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. He was clearly operating on the assumption that if they knew better, they’d do better. Building transformation into the company’s operating rhythm. They had to get costs down.

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The Difference Between Great Leaders And Posers

N2Growth Blog

As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. Put simply, opportunities are time sensitive.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. These tenets are discussed at length by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies, in his book ‘employees first, customers second’ [link] mikemyatt Hi Kavita: Thanks for your comment.

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

Deming Institute

If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). by Will Rogers, or somebody else.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

” Will Rogers. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. ” Alan Kay.