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13 Tips for implementing change in your organisation

Posted in Leadership, Uncategorized on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Keep in mind these 13 tips when implementing a new initiative in your organisation: Keep the workshops positive and fun. Tweet this! Remember the scientific method. – Plan an idea, test and measure the idea, make adjustments accordingly and roll out more broadly. Tweet this! Avoid paralysis by analysis. – Learn lessons from direct experience [...]

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Using a Business Process Model: 5 Steps for a Lean and Agile Business

Posted in Process Improvement, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Business Process Model: Using Demming’s PDCA model in improving your business using SPC and statistical process control techniques. A process model is the way to make your business lean and agile.  What does this mean?  It means you don’t make assumptions, but test.  Use the metrics and get the figures, and then change what isn’t [...]

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Time management and how I learned to floss

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I should be more productive. I tell myself this every day. Today, I could have done so much more except I didn’t know what to do. And I didn’t really have the energy. Except now I do: in the late afternoons for some reason I get a second wind. I’ve just come back from a [...]

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Myth of body language and non-verbal communications

Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

HAVE YOU ever been to a communications course where they told you that only seven percent of a message is communicated by the words spoken? It has never quite rang true with me, but where did it come from. Most people who cite this statistic would have no idea, and are just feeding forward and [...]

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Systems thinking

Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Too often managers exhort their team to do the best they can, and then are dismayed when only 20 percent of the team produce 80 percent of the results. The first solution is to find out what the best people do and replicate that across the others. Maybe there is an incremental improvement. Hire and [...]

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Find your own path.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Leaders should have mentors, they should consciously select their heroes, but ultimately they lived in different times, under different circumstances. We must find our own path and make our own decisions (and mistakes). 1. Remember there is no perfect leader. We all have our own style, and the elements of style – leadership – dictate [...]

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Do organisations have personalities?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

We often here people say how innovative apple is, or entrepreneurial Virgin is, or how boring banks are. As if these companies have personalities in and of themselves. Organisations espouse their values, what they stand for, invest tonnes and tonnes of cash every year in ‘branding’, and advertising in attempt to build a particular reputation. [...]

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Management on a power trip

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Power Trip In almost as many weeks there have been two CEO’s who have fallen on their sword and resigned (or pushed), from large businesses. One from Australia, Mark McInnes, who resigned because of sexual harassment claims, and the other Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard for ‘ethics violations’ (allegedly falsifying expense reports, and sexual harassment). [...]

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April 2010 Strategic Innovation Newsletter: 7 steps to improve workshops

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Welcome to the April 2010 edition of Strategic Innovation newsletter, a free monthly newsletter on leadership, strategy and innovation. Delivered on the first Tuesday of each month. Back issues are archived for free downloading at www.DanielLockConsulting.com. Tips for improving business processes Lookfor hand-offs in processes. Are these for legitimate purpose wheredivision of labour can add value, or [...]

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Strategic Innovation Newsletter -March 2010: 7 Sources of Innovation

Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Welcome to the March 2010 edition of Strategic Innovation newsletter, a free monthly newsletter on leadership, strategy and innovation. Delivered on the first Tuesday of each month. Back issues are archived for free downloading at www.DanielLockConsulting.com. Tips for improving business processes Simplification starts by evaluating every element making it easier to understand and less demanding [...]

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