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By: Toyota’s Quality Mess: What Would Deming Say? » Bret L. Simmons – Positive Organizational Behavior

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:22:30 +0000

[...] famous diagram appears on page 3 of W.E. Deming’s classic 1982 book “Out of The Crisis.” Here is what Deming had to say about [...]

By: The primary barriers to success are self-imposed. « Bret L. Simmons

The primary barriers to success are self-imposed. « Bret L. Simmons — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:20:45 +0000

[...] title of this post is a quote from Tina Selig’s book What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (p.67). I like this book, so much so that I am going to make it one of the required readings for a [...]

By: Give yourself permission « Bret L. Simmons

Give yourself permission « Bret L. Simmons — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:29:17 +0000

[...] had several blog posts that reference Tina Seelig’s excellent book What I wish I knew when I was 20. The most recent one was her observation that the primary barriers to success are self-imposed [...]

By: Goal Setting: A Few Anecdotal Observations. « Bret L. Simmons

Goal Setting: A Few Anecdotal Observations. « Bret L. Simmons — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:46:20 +0000

[...] Anyone that administers quotas or numeric goals should look at W.E. Deming’s classic Out of the Crisis and Brian Joiner’s excellent book Fourth Generation [...]

By: Goal Setting: An Example of why it is Not Easy to Practice Evidence-Based Management « Bret L. Simmons

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:43:48 +0000

[...] Jeff Pfeffer provide some of the best thinking on EBM, and I often quote passages from their books The Knowing-Doing Gap, and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense here in my [...]

By: Committing To Your Goals « Bret L. Simmons

Committing To Your Goals « Bret L. Simmons — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:25:20 +0000

[...] next intentional activity from The How of Happiness is committing to your goals. Recall from my earlier blog that it’s these intentional activities [...]

By: Leadership Credibility « Bret L. Simmons

Leadership Credibility « Bret L. Simmons — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:58:47 +0000

[...] which people often confuse. My source is a fantastic book by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner called Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose it, Why People Demand it. I think Kouzes and Posner write some of the best stuff out there on [...]

By: The Land of Excellence « Bret L. Simmons

The Land of Excellence « Bret L. Simmons — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:07:55 +0000

[...] ran across this quote from Robert Quinn’s book “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within.” Love it Most of us seek quantum leaps in our performance levels by pursuing a strategy of [...]

By: Excellence is a form of deviance « Bret L. Simmons

Excellence is a form of deviance « Bret L. Simmons — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:02:37 +0000

[...] Pfeffer and Sutton (2006) identify the talents of wisdom in four types of folks that help sustain organizational learning. [...]

By: Savoring the Positive « Bret L. Simmons

Savoring the Positive « Bret L. Simmons — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:38:28 +0000

[...] next intentional activity from The How of Happiness is savoring life’s joys. Recall from my earlier blog that it’s these intentional activities [...]