HR Excellence requires risking more for your organization than others think safe to change the corporate culture. (From Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma)
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HR Excellence requires expecting more from your human capital assets than other people do. (From Achieving HR Excelence through Six Sigma)
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HR Excellence requires dreaming more than others think practical about the potential for your organization. (From Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma)
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HR Excellence requires caring more for your organization than others think wise. (From Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma)
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Have you asked the 5 Whys re: your organization?
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Frustrated with that job description, ask your customers to write it for you.They know better than you what makes a great employee in you organization.
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Focus on the process, people are not your problem ( From the Road to HR Excellence Seminar)
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Every process has its hiccups, finding them is the hard part because we don’t look for them. ( From the In Plain Sight Webinar)
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Empowerment= Engagement x Teams x Process Ownership (From Employee Empowerment: The Prime Component of Sustainable Change Management)
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Empowerment is the DNA of sustainable change management in your organization. (From Employee Empowerment- The Prime Component of Sustainable Change Management)
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Continuous Process Improvement = Management Style x Empowerment x Teams (From Employee Empowerment: The Prime Component of Sustainable Change Management)
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Attached to choices are consequences, choose wisely (From the HR Strategist@Net-Speed Blog)
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Are your customer’s part of your improvement process? if not why not? (From Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma 2nd Edition)
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Are you the critical HR leader in your organization, if not why not? (From HR as a System webinar)
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Are you doing things because that is the way you have always done it? (From Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma)
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Are you asking every day How does this {process, procedure, action, initiative, project, policy} help the organization achieve its business objective? (TLS Continuum Webinar Series)
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Are you a dictator or a coach? Understand your new role in the organization (From Employee Empowerment: Prime Component of Sustainable Change Management)
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If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. (Shirley Chisholm)
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. (Barack Obama)
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When we lack the knowledge and skills to achieve excellence, we sometimes lack the knowledge and skills to judge excellence (Adam Grant from Thinking Again)
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Visions for change are more compelling when they include visions for continuity. (Adam Grant from Thinking Again)
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Purpose of learning is not to affirm our beliefs, it is to evolve our beliefs (Adam Grant in the book Think Again)
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Process helps make sense of change but blindly following a process is a recipe for disaster (Jason LIttle)
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. Th change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (Buckminster Fuller)
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The secret of change is focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new (Socrates)
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The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way (Grace Hopper)
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Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day. (Frances Hesselbein)
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Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have — and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. (James Belasco)
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Because a thing seems difficult to us, do not think it impossible for any one to accomplish. (Marcus Aureilius)
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In teamwork, silence is not golden, it is deadly (Mark Sanborn)
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A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it (Scott Allen)
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Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised (Dennis Waitley)
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We cannot become what we want to be but remaining who we are (Max DePree)
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We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit (Aristotle)
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Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach them where to fish (Robert Kaplan)
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My advice on any process improvement is to throw out the sacred cows and defy conventional wisdom (Robert Solars)
Every Organization has one and it is in plain sight
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, in his book the Goal, describes a weekend camping trip with some scouts in which, one boy tended to lag behind the rest of the group resulting in the group being delayed on their journey. The boy’s name was Herbie. Every organization is designed around a set of processes that ensure that […]
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Continuous process improvement means that we never perceive current success as our final achievement (John Hunter)
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Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution (Pearl Zhu)
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Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking (Watts Humphrey)
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Process improvement is constantly optimizing processes (Sophie Miles)
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When solving problems dig at the roots instead of hacking at the leaves (Anthony D’Angelo)
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The first step in solving a problem is to recognize it exists. (Zig Zigler)
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Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem.We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem (Russell Ackoff)
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guide lines (Robert Schuler)
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Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem (Jonathan Mead)
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Every problem has a solution, you just have to be creative enough to find it (Travis Kalanick)
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It frequently happens that a man delivers his opinions with such boldness and assurance that he appears to be under no apprehension as to the possibility of his being in error. (Immanuel Kant)
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It’s easy to make things hard, but hard to make them easy (Jos de Blok)