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Business thought leaders have been advocating for managing by outcomes for decades. Peter Drucker, a renowned managerial thought leader, wrote about its benefits countless times12. Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, utilized the practice at Intel and wrote about it in his best-selling book High Output Management. More recently, Google, Google
... See moreTeresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
You can’t plan away uncertainty; you need to experiment it away.
Jim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
“Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership.”
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. These policy problems resist simple solutions by a few powerful actors in one center of government
II. Challenge
Systems change is disruptive to the usual ways of thinking and acting, which means that systems leadership is... See more
So, through the astute leader’s observation, a problem calls for a subsystem modification. The leader makes the permanent improvement, causing the entire system to be incrementally more robust and reliable than before the problem occurred. Addressing the problem, and then taking this second step to fix the cause of the problem, distinguishes the
... See moreSam Carpenter • Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
Today, leaders wait until there’s a problem before they fix it. This approach must be replaced with a process of continuous learning, continuous improvement, continuous adaptation, and continuous change.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Articulate the problem and how you noticed it: You have seen a real problem and you are calling attention to it. Richard Branson tells the story about how he was stranded in an airport and wondered if there was a better way to run an airline. Extrapolate on the impact of the problem: You know that this problem impacts more areas of life than one
... See moreDaniel Priestley • Key Person of Influence
“Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the 'disorganizer,'... See more