A Sales Driven Company Doesn’t Have To Be Just About Profit with Joe Shine, CFO Sheehy Auto Sales Culture Leaders meet Joe Shine, the CFO of the $900 million company Sheehy Auto Stores and recipient of the CFO of the Year Award by Atlanta Business Chronicle. From simple beginnings in 1965, Sheehy Ford began as […]
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BIZ CULTURE TIPS: Peter Drucker
“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ […]
BIZ CULTURE TIP: Tom Landry
“I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.” – Tom Landry
CORPORATE ETHICS AND OZ
By: Craig O. Donaldson The Wizard of Oz introduced us to three wonderful and flawed characters. We cheered them on in their magical journey to Oz. One lacked a brain, the other lacked a heart and the third was without courage. With Dorothy and Toto, they plodded along in a fanciful world with witches, […]
The Inevitable Lean Process Implosion, Part 4
Lean has proven to be a solid and effective process to activate the latent power in Eastern cultures and has also significantly improved performance in any number of Western organizations. With Kaizen, Toyota built a breakthrough culture, but the same will not work for most American organizations. The West must build their unique counterpart. The […]
The Inevitable Lean Process Implosion, Part 3
The source of Lean’s cultural dissonance in America has its roots in Masaaki Imai’s 1986 book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success. Kaizen refers to the Japanese concept of never-ending, continuous improvement. Imai took Americans to task for our failure to understand the power of Kaizen and for not seeing how it animated Lean. […]
The Inevitable Lean Process Implosion, Part 2
We see culture as an accumulation of collective experience that, over time, creates a system of beliefs, norms, speech, values and artifacts. Culture determines how things are done and problems are solved. Note that this definition says it is culture, not Lean programs, that determine how things are done and problems solved. This may not […]
The Inevitable Lean Process Implosion, Part 1
If you are a decision maker in private sector business, local, state or federal government and you are either implementing or exploring Lean Thinking, then you should be commended. Lean, based on the Toyota Production System, has become one of the 20th century’s greatest innovations. Lean has changed the face of manufacturing worldwide and is […]
Social Media, Next Decade
Social Media has changed the game. Right now, someone from your company is posting about their day at the office on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or perhaps they’re publishing a blog on your entire organization. Do you have the business culture that you want the public to know about? Are you the type of leader that […]
