Eleven Leadership Guidelines for the Digital Age
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Digitalization requires firms to enter uncharted territories
The Traveling Ohno Circle
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A few spare moments can be turned into an opportunity to observe processes to find waste.
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How Your Personal Relationships Impact Your Professional Ones
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The roles we adopt often are unconsciously transferred to similar relationships in our workplace, relationships, or career
How Your Bonus Affects Your Colleagues’ Behavior
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A bonus can tell you a lot about what really motivates employees (even if you think you already know)
Inside Quality Digest Live for June 16, 2017
The June 16, 2017, episode of QDL included my hot take on Hexagon’s ginormous user conference as well as interviews with two of our favorite guests, Chad Kymal of Omnex and Kelly Graves of Internal Business Solutions. Take a look:
Employee Motivation
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Happy employees. Where does it come from? Internal or external motivation?
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What are the common mistakes managers make when trying to motivate employees? In this article, we’ll discuss these mistakes and some better strategies to successfully motivate employees.
Manufacturing Lessons from Space
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From aerospace to automotive to custom bicycles, if you’re not using the best technology, you’re not creating the most value.
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What Do You Mean My Production Is Wonky?
You can be known as a hard worker and counted on to tie up loose ends, but fall behind when co-workers’ tasks are on hold until yours are complete, and you’re perceived as needing an attitude adjustment. What would you want to do? Place blame or work on a remedy?
Four Decision-Making Styles and When to Use Them
Sometimes leaders make bad decisions or harm team morale by making autocratic decisions without involving others. And other times they waste their team’s time by unnecessarily involving them.