Systems Thinking Stack – 16 Publications

This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Systems Thinking I organized this stack on Systems Thinking and it includes interviews on Dr. Deming, Peter Scholtes and Brian Joiner. I ended up with 16 publications in the stack at the time of this publication. Stacks are a new Read More …

Markovitz On Keeping Your Company Fit

Dan Markovitz helps organizations become faster, stronger, and more agile through the application of Lean Principles to knowledge work. He has worked with non-profit and governmental organizations, is a popular speaker and presenter, and a Shingo Prize Winner for his book, A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance.  Read More …

Leaders Developing Employees

In talking to Dan Markovitz, author of the new book Building the Fit Organization: Six Core Principles for Making Your Company Stronger, Faster, and More Competitive, I get the feeling that of the six principles in his book that the last chapter on The Coaching Triangle is the most important. An excerpt from this weeks Read More …

Extending the Use of SWOT

I want to mention that you used some traditional methods or practices. I mean the vital few, Balance Scorecards, SWOT. It was a tool with kind of a different concept. It was like you modernized all those things to 2015. It wasn’t that you took the crux out of it, you know the main ingredient Read More …

Thinking Strategically

Paul Butler is one of the authors of the new book, Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking. At GlobalEdg. LLC, Paul accelerates the development of leaders and organizations that require them to create and lead high performing cultures. With over 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors, he is Read More …

Using Questions in a Strategic Framework

You expand on the use of questions, and that leading with the questions approach. That approach sounds good, but it’s not the easiest to do. I think it’s hard. You think it’s just going to be a natural process of asking those questions, but it’s extremely hard to do and especially I think when you Read More …