Category: Systems Thinking and Performance Improvement
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Measuring Progress: Building Stronger Companies with Better Performance Metrics
π§ Dojo Compass Module: Decision-Making, Innovation and Lateral Thinking Focus Area: Systems Thinking and Performance Improvement Key Article Point: Every organization measures performance. Revenue, profitability, customer satisfaction, project completion rates and countless other indicators are tracked in the hope that better measurement will lead to better results. Yet many companies discover that despite increasingly sophisticated…
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The Path of Work
π§ Dojo Compass Module: Decision-Making, Innovation and Lateral Thinking Focus Area: Systems Thinking and Performance Improvememt π― The Challenge For many people, work is viewed primarily as a transaction. Time is exchanged for compensation. Tasks are completed in order to earn a salary. Weekends and vacations become the moments when “real life” begins, while the…
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Becoming the Target: Focus, Performance, and the Japanese Art of Kyudo
π§ Dojo Compass Module: Decision-Making, Innovation and Lateral Thinking Focus Area: Systems Thinking and Performance Improvement π―The Challenge Modern business suffers from an abundance of attention and a scarcity of focus. Every day we are bombarded with emails, messages, notifications, meetings, and competing demands for our attention. As a result, multitasking has become normalized, even…
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The Japanese Tea Ceremony, Business Performance and Ichi Go Ichi E
π§ Dojo Compass Module: Decision-Making, Innovation & Strategic Thinking Focus Area: Performance & Improvement π―The Challenge Why do some individuals and organizations consistently produce extraordinary results while others remain merely competent? The answer is often surprisingly simple. Extraordinary performance rarely comes from a single grand achievement. It is the cumulative result of thousands of ordinary…