Posts Tagged ‘ Corporate Culture ’

Last week’s tweets

February 6, 2012

In case you missed it, here are some tweet & re-tweets of articles & other things that caught my eye last week: From Others: From @tedcoine: YES!! RT @shawmu: Actually give a S### about the development of individuals.ow.ly/8SkuB via @kris_dunn From @ShingoPrize: Robert Miller said Shingo Prize focuses on more than just culture, it focuses on how to change culture #lean#ShingoPrize From @DemingSos: “Stamping out fires is lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.” “Manage cause, not result. #Deming#quick-fix From @TheOnion - Area Man Uninterested In Creating A Better Community Even Though This May Benefit Him In...

Adversity: It’s Not Whether It Will Happen But How You React That Counts

February 3, 2012

By Cory VanBuskirk

Adversity: It’s Not Whether It Will Happen But How You React That Counts

At some time you’re going to face serious adversity. Maybe you already have. Your crisis may be an internal or external one, but it will come. The more extensive your leadership reach, the more likely you are to face these situations. The impact can be disastrous for your business and for you personally. Just ask executives at Toyota or BP. Once you’re there, the only thing that matters is your ability to navigate through the storm. While each situation is unique, and there is no prescriptive formula for success, you’ve got to carefully manage these five things or you...

How do you go to the Gemba when the Gemba is anywhere and everywhere?

February 1, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

I have a dilemma. Since I have been blogging about ROWE and contemplating the virtual workspace, it is at odds with my affinity for Lean Thinking and, especially, the concepts of going to Gemba and Leader Standard Work. If process excellence is facilitated by having Leaders go to where the work takes place, how can this same process excellence be gained when workers are at home in their pajamas, banging away on laptops?

Since you built it, they will come

January 30, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

I suspect just as much work gets done just as well by those in small companies working in converted strip malls. I'm also certain good work gets done (especially in those white-collar industries where there are more knowledge workers who could work anywhere, any time) by people who are sitting on their couch, in a coffee shop, a library, or on the beach. After all, if you believe people are dedicated and intrinsically motivated, then you have little reason to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a building that adds nothing to the value of the...

So, will culture help me grow my business?

January 23, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

So, will culture help me grow my business?

All business is, to one degree or another, a volume business. The size of a business is determined by its revenues. While nearly every improvement school focuses on lowering costs – do they help to increase revenue? Most businesses will live within a certain margin that is reasonable within the company’s industry. True growth, however, occurs by selling more and increasing the volume of dollars flowing in. So, how can a business see the impact of adopting progressive cultural experiments on total, overall dollars at its disposal? If you had asked me up until a...

Product Innovation captures the imagination; Process innovation captures markets

January 16, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

Product Innovation captures the imagination; Process innovation captures markets

Is the run that Apple has had on its decline? It could very well be. Although the innovations introduced there have been the stuff of modern-day fables, the sustainability of the business model appears to be suffering in the face of competition that was content to be a second-mover. Straight out of business school textbooks, the second mover has the advantage of watching the first invest heavily in changing the landscape of the market. While Apple has certainly redefined the market over the past decade or two, it seems that its strength is faltering. ...

You can’t bloviate your way to an improved workplace

January 10, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

You can’t bloviate your way to an improved workplace

I think we’ve all encountered the senior manager who has been assigned to “fix” a dysfunctional chunk of the organization. Typically, they come in with a great many ideas, usually born from experiences in other situations, and then they begin to implement the tools that worked elsewhere. There’s often a short period of enthusiasm, if not grudging acceptance, but things tend to slip backwards in time and, eventually, the organization returns to a state very similar to where it began. The problems that the person was facing never really went away, and the attempts at treatment proved to be...

Why you can’t blame ROWE for Best Buy’s trouble

January 9, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

Culture-transforming practices don't necessarily make business successful. It's still a matter of sound decision making at the top that makes a company profitable, or not. The benefits of progressive, empowering, engaging cultures is that they are more able to take advantage of good decisions or favorable changes in the environment and, generally, lessen the impact when things take a turn for the worse.

Shattering the rules: The too hard pile

January 4, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

It is because of fear that we look at change as being too hard. We believe the obstacles insurmountable. The deck is stacked against us, or maybe we just don’t know how – so we fear looking foolish if we fail. So we don’t try. We throw things on the Too Hard pile and forget about them. We throw them there, so we don’t try and we just accept. We accept until we start to believe things are this way for a reason. We believe long enough to start to defend it,...

Typical Recruiting: The first step to the last straw

January 3, 2012

By David M. Kasprzak

Typical Recruiting: The first step to the last straw

From time to time I am contacted by recruiters, usually third-party folks who are looking to gain a commission, and once in a while I get a message from an in-house recruiter who has found my resume on monster.com or LinkedIn. The typical introduction, whether by phone or email, tends to go something like: Hello, I am ___________, a senior recruiter with ___________. I have a position I think you are a perfect fit for. Please forward me your resume and I’ll give you more details about the position. Now, all of that sounds normal, right? It’s...

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Posts Tagged ‘ Corporate Culture ’

Last week’s tweets

Adversity: It’s Not Whether It Will Happen But How You React That Counts

How do you go to the Gemba when the Gemba is anywhere and everywhere?

Since you built it, they will come

So, will culture help me grow my business?

Product Innovation captures the imagination; Process innovation captures markets

You can’t bloviate your way to an improved workplace

Why you can’t blame ROWE for Best Buy’s trouble

Shattering the rules: The too hard pile

Typical Recruiting: The first step to the last straw

Get your Memory Joggers!

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