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Tag Archives: Productivity
The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments
Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog[[1]], The 6 New Management Imperatives – Leadership Skills for a Radically Changed Business Environment. Mr. Temkin sets out to define a “new set of skills” for managers. These are the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Business structure, Functional Skills, Operations, People, Strategy/Planning
Tagged bruce temkin, business processes, customers, Deming, Drucker, EFQM, empowerment, high performance, high performance organization, leadership skills, management, management principles, Marketing/Sales, Productivity, senior managers, strategic plan, Toyota Production System, TPS
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Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit
I have used David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity (Penguin: NY 2001) both personally and with clients for a number of years. Recently I volunteered to lead a discussion of the book’s approach to personal … Continue reading
Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?
Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase “time management” returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with ‘time management” in the title or … Continue reading
More about the High Performance Management
Key principles and practices of high performance management flow from extensive practical work Toyota Production System (TPS) lean manufacturing, lean enterprise (all of this flowing from Toyota’s fifty years of innovation)[[1]], the US-based Baldrige National Quality Program “Criteria for Performance … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, baldrige national quality program, customers, EFQM, Fact-based, high performance, iso 9000 standards, lean enterprise, lean manufacturing, management, People, performance, performance excellence, personnel, Productivity, responsibility, results, strength
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Management Principles & Practices
The personal and functional management principles and practices that we use in business coaching originate in the best high-performance management systems in use around the world. A great deal is known about high-performance management and high-performance companies. These lessons are … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, baldrige national quality program, customer requirements, EFQM, high performance, iso 9000 standards, lean manufacturing, performance excellence, personnel, Productivity
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Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance
Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned
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Posted in Book Reviews, Podcasts, Productivity
Tagged business managers, crenshaw, David Crenshaw, Goldratt, high performance, inefficiencies, management, multitasking, owner, People, Productivity
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Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance
Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5″ x 7″ format – very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done by … Continue reading
Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information – Podcast
Seize time of your own by gaining control over Too Much Information.
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Tagged blog, effective manager, management skills, Podcasts, Podcasts, Productivity, Time
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Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information
I have written a number of other postings about time management. I always start off with the true, but worn, observation that time is the one element of business (life, too) that can not be purchased, borrowed, or inventoried. It … Continue reading
Seize Your Time: the breakthrough first step in time management
A breakthrough first step in time management to become a more effective manager. PODCAST
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Tagged effective manager, management skills, opportunities, Productivity, results, seize time, strength
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