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The Power of Vision

Monday, July 7, 2008

In the
last post I brought up the advantage of having a long range plan vs. quarter-to-quarter thinking. I’d like to explore the concept a little more by way of an analogy.
Put yourself in the spring of 1961.
The USSR, by all demonstrative measures, is ahead of the USA in human space flight, and seems to [...]

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Who’s Your Coach?

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

In a few weeks, the best athletes in the world will assemble in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Just being there means these individuals are performing at a level that the rest of us can only watch and appreciate.
Each of these world-class top performers has a coach.
Ironically, their coaches are not capable of performing [...]

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“Management Resistance” or Poor Process?

Monday, April 21, 2008

At leanblog.org, Mark Graban
recently posted about the latest State of Lean survey from the
LEI. His observation is that the survey seems to be a search-for-blame (looking for the sources of resistance) rather than focused on root cause for the resistance itself. Following a couple of links in that post takes us back a [...]

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Getting Leaders Involved

Sunday, October 28, 2007

“How do I get the leaders involved?” How often have we all heard, or even asked, that question? Of course the actual answer is “you can’t.” At least you can’t force them to. But there are things that might help the leader decide to get involved.
I think the biggest mistake people make is to assume [...]

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Be Sure: What Are You Trying To Accomplish?

Thursday, August 9, 2007

And how will you know you have accomplished it?
This article on
Tech Republic is about defense against a hacker strategy called “Social Engineering” wherein the hacker uses a ruse to gain someone’s trust. The goal (for the hacker) is to leverage human nature and get information or access.
So what does this have to do [...]

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