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Monthly Archives: July 2011
A McKinsey survey I’d like to see . . .
As I wrote in an earlier blog posting, it seems to me like McKinsey & Co. is morphing into a publishing and survey company. Nearly every other day I get an email and a new McKinsey article based on their … Continue reading
Flyfishing with Jack Hemingway
“Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” … Continue reading
An example of “leadership perspective” . . .
In my last posting I started a discussion on Total Quality and how it is time to expand the focus of quality onto Total Quality Leadership, or as a reply from a reader termed it: TQM 2.0 (I like that!). … Continue reading
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Tagged Halit Turgay, Leadership DNA, Leadership perspective, Music Festival, south of France, Young Virtuosi
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Total Quality Leadership . . .
“Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.” – Phil Crosby In the early 1980s the US was losing the quality race to … Continue reading
George and Harry take a trip . . .
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” -George Bernard Shaw One of the marvels of modern aviation transportation is the autopilot which on a long distance flight effectively and safely guides the jumbo … Continue reading
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Tagged autopilot, bullseye, feedback, hitting the target, john r childress, strategy execution
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Celebrating talent and hard work . . .
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Aldous Huxley This week we are in the south of France where we are sponsoring a classical music festival. For the past four years we have organized classical … Continue reading