jimc325Aug 23, 20191 minContinuous Improvement SummitContinuous Improvement frameworks and practices like Lean, Six Sigma, and Baldrige have been essential elements of high performance workplaces across Wiscon...
jimc325Aug 20, 20191 minChanging Corporate MissionMajor corporate CEOs are beginning to look beyond shareholder interests and state their purpose as more balanced and long term. The Baldrige Excellence comm...
jimc325Jun 30, 20191 minWhat's In Our Name?StatOrg is a combination of "statistical" and "organizational." It was chosen as the company name because it accurately blends into a word the approach we t...
jimc325Jun 11, 20192 minGetting Maximized ResultsAs Patrick Below and I complete the development of our book that will help organizations get results we have concluded that we need to go the extra mile to h...
jimc325May 21, 20193 minWorking the Vital FewI see this in many organizations in other economic sectors, too. Organizations have to have a process to select and work the Vital Few. Kim Barnas says thi...
jimc325Feb 24, 20191 minBaldrige ToolsBaldrige tools use the Baldrige Framework above and pose a series of questions for organizations to use to assess their level of development of these interac...
jimc325Jan 31, 20191 minNamed to WCPE BoardJim Christensen was recently named to the board of the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence. He joins the Board in February and looks forward to work...
jimc325Oct 5, 201810 minMetrics MatterINTERVIEW – In this thought-provoking conversation, Michael Ballé and Mark Graban discuss metrics and the managerial attitude towards tracking them. Words:...
jimc325Jul 28, 20181 minVision without ExecutionEinstein once said, "Vision without execution is hallucination." I am collaborating on a book on the subject of Plan Execution, and will be publishing excerp...
jimc325Jul 27, 20181 minGood Leadership is Asking Good QuestionsKathleen Paris found an excellent article to make a good point: This HBR article reinforces the power of asking good questions. It is a key leadership skill ...
jimc325Jul 24, 20184 minYou Could Be Too Much of a Team Player This is an article from the Wall Street Journal that poses an interesting question: By Sue Shellenbarger July 23, 2018 9:27 a.m. Amid a sweeping workplace tr...
jimc325Jul 24, 20183 minFour ways managers subconsciously sabotage their own teamsI find many good articles on Fast Company. Here is one I like: BY MICHELLE VITUS AND CHRISTY TONGE 4 MINUTE READ Mean, self-interested, and toxic bosses aren...
jimc325Jul 23, 20184 minThese are the six things the best mentors never doGwen Moran at Fast Company wrote this excellent article: BY GWEN MORAN Good mentoring relationships can yield a variety of benefits for both mentor and proté...