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8 Steps to High Performance: Focus On What You Can Change (Ignore the Rest) Marc Effron Harvard Business Review Press (August 2018) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at…
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The Power of Positive Destruction: How to Turn a Business Idea Into a Revolution Seth Merrin John Wiley & Sons (2016) How to break things down to make them better and “improve the lives of all who benefit from those…
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5 Habits to Lead from Your Heart: Getting Out of Your Head to Express Your Heart Johnny Covey Made for Success Publishing (June 2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle…
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Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno: What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System Takehico Harada McGraw-Hill (2015) “It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard…
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It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement
Years ago, Jon Katzenbach told me that the greatest challenge that change agents face is changing their ideas about change. The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen (改善) and was probably introduced when Edgar McVoy convinced Lowell Mellen to join him…
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