The Danger of Authoritarian Leadership
Many writers have observed a global trend – the emergence of authoritarianism and the decline of...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Feb 18, 2025 | Corporate Culture, Hybrid Organization, Leadership, Organization Design and Process Improvement, Team Leadership | 0
Many writers have observed a global trend – the emergence of authoritarianism and the decline of...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Nov 18, 2015 | Agile, Corporate Culture, Lean Management, Organization Design and Process Improvement, Strategy Execution | 0
Research by the Conference Board and by researchers reporting in the Harvard Business Review (March 2015) report that the execution of strategy is their greatest concern. The Conference Board’s recent Survey of CEOs revealed that chief executives are so concerned about strategy execution that they rated it as both their number one and number two most challenging issue. Agile Strategy Execution is a solution to the problem.
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Aug 25, 2015 | Leadership, Lean Culture, Lean Management, Organization Design and Process Improvement, Toyota Production System | 1
Many organizations are not gaining the potential benefits of teams in the workplace due to misunderstandings about team autonomy and self-control. This is a critical issue in organization design and leadership today. Let’s clarify both the benefits and the determinants of team autonomy.
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Oct 31, 2013 | Corporate Culture, Leadership, Organization Design and Process Improvement | 0
There are plenty of books that hold up Toyota or other great companies as a model and essentially say “Be like that!” But for many companies this is a bit like holding up a picture of a bare chested Arnold Schwarzenegger or a bikini clad model and saying “There it is. Be like that!” It should only be so easy. Having a model of a great culture or great body is fine, but getting there is something entirely different. Here are nine keys to successfully leading change.
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Aug 21, 2013 | Corporate Culture, Leadership, Lean Culture, Lean Management, Lean Manufacturing, Organization Design and Process Improvement, Socio-technical systems | 7
When we think of lean our mind first goes to the workings of the Toyota factory. However, the principles of eliminating waste and achieving interruption free flow may be found at an even more profound level in the design of Apple’s breakthrough products and the intuition of Steve Jobs. Reading Walter Isaacson’s recent and excellent biography of Jobs I am struck by the intuitive sense of lean, of flow, of simplicity, that he demanded from both the aesthetics and the technical workings of every product. You would be hard pressed to find an executive with a better sense of the interaction between the social and the technical.
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