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TRANSFORMATION BEGINS
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Visit our TRANSFORMED web-site! www.mdaszko.com
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A leader’s job is to transform the organization. And that begins at home. One does not always know (see) what they do not know (see). With help, insights, feedback, and new perspectives from friends, clients, and colleagues, www.mdaszko.com has transformed!
Visit it soon and take a look. There is a new global look, a few new articles, services and new thinking—all continually evolving and innovating!
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KEYNOTE SPEAKING & OFF-SITE EXECUTIVE RETREAT FACILITATION
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- Strategic Change
- Focus on Transformation, not Mere Change
- Leadership Development
- Innovation
- Winning with Collaborative, Global Teams
Call to book your session today:
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NEW MINI-WORKSHOP SERIES
Interactive, focused and dynamic mini-workshops are the “latest rage” for rapidly enhancing a team’s collaboration, learning, alignment, and action planning. Team members may fly in from around the world or across the campus to develop community knowledge and skills and strengthen their ability to implement new learning into their work.
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The Mini-Workshops offer real-time, meaningful learning and address specific, current and relevant needs. They range in time from 60 minutes to several days.
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Popular topics (and most are customized) are:
- Leadership Transformation – Developing What Leaders Need to Know
- Accelerating Innovation
- Creating a Collaborative Culture for Change—Team Alignment
- Data-based Decision-Making for Executives
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NEW BOOKS TO INTEGRATE INTO YOUR THINKING:
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING by Jeffrey Pfeffer, PhD. Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer unveils his twelfth book as a provocative (and necessary) challenge to current management fads. His unconventional wisdom reviews the poor business choices so many executives are making today. His common-sense approach, based on sound theories of management, will hopefully shake more rather than fewer leaders’ actions into more thoughtful and wise business choices. |
INNOVATE LIKE EDISON: The Success System of America’s Greatest Inventor by Michael Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott. The pace of innovation in the U.S. is now being globally challenged. Innovate like Edison offers excellent insights into the thinking of Thomas Edison. It integrates some of the contemporary methods such as TRIZ and De Bono’s Six Hat Thinking with the revolutionary innovation principles that Edison adopted and used. It describes Edison’s deep passions for learning, continually improving, experimenting with thousands of failures until he realized successes, and how he maintained a very positive focus through all of his innovation work. The power in this book is in the thinking processes it shares and its descriptions of how creating numerous innovations does not come from mere creativity, magic, and teamwork, but instead from “connecting the dots” and seeing innovation in a non-linear framework full of inter-dependent processes. Another critical element shared in the book and commonly found in serial innovators is their love to play. And all of the world is their playground.
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Brand New Book: Watch for Peter Block’s latest book: COMMUNITY, published by Berrett-Koehler, coming out in late April. Order at www.bkconnection.com
And older books that can be read and re-read and shared:
THE NEW ECONOMICS by W. Edwards Deming
THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE by Alfie Kohn |
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ARTICLE: 2007 DEMING PRIZE AWARDS
2007 Deming Prize Awards All Go To Companies From India
On November 14, 2007, more than 300 executives from around the world convened at the Deming Prize ceremony in Tokyo, Japan to celebrate Quality with the award recipients. It was a great pleasure for me to attend this event in 2007 and witness the Deming Prizes being awarded!
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Deming Prize Winners
Mr. Fujio Mitarai, Chairman of the Deming Prize Committee welcomed the standing-room only audience to the Prize ceremony. The Prize has been awarded for 57 years. It was awarded in 1951 at the 1st Quality Control Congress to commemorate achievement and friendship. Of the Deming Prize awards, the first one was the Japan Quality Award and it was secured by Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Farm Equipment sector. As the #3 market leader of tractors in the world with revenues of $120 million, they were also recipients of the Deming Prize in 2003.
The Deming Prize for Individuals was awarded to Mr. Masayoshi Ushikubo, Chairmen, Sanden Corporation for his leadership in helping his and other companies adopt the Deming Quality philosophy. The Deming Application Prizes were awarded to Asahi India Glass Limited (Auto Glass Division)and Rane (Madras) Limited. The Quality Control Award for Operations Business Units was awarded to Reliance Industries Limited, Hariza Manufacturing Division.
Mr. Sanjay Labroo, CEO of Asahi commented after his company received the award, "Quality management has enabled us to unlock the ability for more creativity and massive improvements. We are on a never-ending journey and accept this award as a milestone on this long journey." Reliance’s Executive Director, Mr. H.S. Kohli emphatically echoed similar sentiments, "I’m committed to Quality and we will continue our journey, and we will spread the movement."
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WHAT LEADERS NEED TO KNOW . . . But How Could They Know?
Systems Thinking. It is not a new concept, yet everyday many leaders run their organizations with no understanding of Systems Thinking. Fundamentally, leadership must look at their organization as a system if they want it to survive and thrive, in a healthy, functional way. If they do not have Systems understanding, the organization may not survive—Survival is Optional.
In short, the System (organization) must have an Aim (a Compelling Purpose that people can engage with and contribute to.) All of the parts must work together (inter-dependency and collaboration) to accomplish the Aim of the System. Leadership’s job is to Optimize (not maximize) the system. |
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