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Real Leaders Don’t Tell Anyone What to Do

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

Work Well Together

The traditional view of leadership is the commander. Commanders give orders, set rules, and direct others. It's a command and control model of leadership based on the idea that people will do the wrong things unless told what to do. However, real leadership is not about telling people what to do. The most effective leaders don't tell anyone what …

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Enacting a Better Culture

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

Culture Emerges from mental, social and physical systems

"If only we had a better culture?" I hear that phrase all too often. You may have said it yourself, but what does it mean? What does a better culture look like? And, more importantly, how can you create a better culture? It all starts with understanding that culture is emergent. It's the experience that emerges at the intersection of …

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The Essence of the Theory of Constraints

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

Over the past couple of months, I have endeavored to capture the core theory underlying the Theory of Constraints (TOC).  My goal is to clarify the foundation of TOC and build a better understanding of the dynamics when applied.  And perhaps, armed with a deeper understanding, find ways to improve TOC. I started with a prototype of the …

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Collectively Coherent Transformation

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

replication - change

Resource allocation decisions are pervasive in companies, from top to bottom.  At the top of the organization, formal processes drive decisions: strategy, capital planning, budgeting, and the like all focus on how best to allocate resources. And at the individual level, we are all involved in a continuous stream of decisions about how we …

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De-risk Your Transformation

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

transformation

Big top-down transformation programs rarely succeed. Big projects almost always lead to complete failure or disappointment. Small to moderate-sized transformations are over 11 times more likely to succeed than very large efforts. The key to a better way forward is to embrace the idea that substantial changes can be triggered by small, focused …

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Document, Measure, Learn, Improve

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

Knowledge

Making effective resource allocation decisions is a skill that can be learned and developed through deliberate practice coupled with structured feedback and review. It starts with documenting the standard practice of decision-making - goals, constraints, decision-making process, and simple rules. Define what standard work looks like. In …

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Ensure People Know What They Need to Know

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

local and global perspective

When simple rules are well crafted, they carry with them implicit information about what’s important from both a global and local perspective.    These rules also help define the minimum information set that people need to know. You need to ensure that people have the information they need to process the rules …

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Use Simple Rules to Maximize Throughput Value

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

Simple Rules

When you understand your goals and constraints on realizing the goal, resource allocation becomes much easier. The key question becomes how to use the constrained resource most effectively.  How do you maximize the value of the throughput? High-quality decisions can be made using simple decision rules. In practice, you often need three types …

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Organize Decisions Around Constrained Resources That Produce Goals

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

Hurdle as constraint

The resource that acts as the governing constraint (a physical or logical bottleneck) for a system limits the system’s ability to produce whatever it produces.  The system cannot produce more than the governing constraint. Intuitively we don’t like governing constraints. Our normal reaction is to break them; to find some way to remove …

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Stop Generating Unproductive Complexity

By Alex Nesbitt | Effectiveness

complexity

Many resource allocation decisions are made necessary by poorly regulated workflows that saturate resources with work. When a system is saturated with work, every resource becomes a potential constraint on throughput. The saturated condition creates competition for the resource and the variability in the decisions about resource allocation …

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