HOW LEADERS BUILD CULTURES OF...
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HOW LEADERS BUILD CULTURES OF EXCELLENCE
Robert Miller
How Did We Get Here?
The Sixties“Quality Circles”
The Seventies“Work Simplification”“Kepner/Tregoe”
The Nineties“Total Quality Management”
The Eighties“Just‐in‐time”
“Statistical Process Control”
The 2014“Lean/Six Sigma”
CULTURE!!!
The Millenium“Six Sigma”“Lean”
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What Actually Happened?
We Re‐invented New Versions of KnownVersions of Known Practices, Tools and
Programs…
UsingUsingA Few Key Universal & Timeless Principles…
The Evidence is clear…
Tools Systems & Events AreTools, Systems & Events Are Necessary
But Insufficient
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A Key Learning…
“Sustainability Always Comes Down to the Culture!”
And Yet….Even after we’ve learned it…
We Still Keep Getting it Wrong!
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What is Culture?
Culture… “The sum of all learned & socially demonstrated behavior patterns.”
Cultures Exist at Many Levels
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Culture is Observed Individually
What we actually see are individual acts
(behaviors)(behaviors)
Observable, recordable and measurable
Sum of these individual acts = A Culture
Measuring & Building Culture Requires a Standard
Where Does a Behavioral Scale Come From?Where Does a Behavioral Scale Come From?
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How Does a Strong Culture Develop?(Think Internal Standard/Scale)
Influenced by a leader
Reinforced by rules
Embedded by routine
Validated by
recognitionrecognition
Guided by beliefs
At the end of the day…
What I have been taught
Choices Are Guided by Beliefs
What I have been taught
What I have seen
What I have experienced
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Changing Culture RequiresChanging Thinking…
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Less than that is …
“Unsustainable”
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Diffusion“When people from one culture attempt to implement the practices of another culture without understanding and embracing the meaning behindunderstanding and embracing the meaning behind the practice.”
Does this sound familiar? Quality Circles
Just‐in‐Time
Total Quality Management Total Quality Management
Statistical Process Control
Six Sigma
Lean
“AMERICAN FOOTBALL PROJECTS A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE ON AND OFF THE PITCH…”
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“Commissioner Goodell sent a “clear” message to his players…”
a. “Shape the policy…”b. Announced it in a letter to teams and staff
What else might the Commissioner do that won’tchange the culture?change the culture?
Letters, policies, strong language, PR campaigns, classes for education, projects, are not enough to change a Culture!are not enough to change a Culture!
Changing Culture RequiresChanging Thinking…
Less than that is … “Unsustainable”
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The Shingo Model Can Accelerate Changes in Thinking
The Shingo Model
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Six Strategies for Leaders to Build
Sustainable Cultures of Excellence!
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#1 Leaders Understand and Exemplify “Ideal” Behaviors
Understand the principles and outcomes they govern.
Know what ideal behaviors flow from the principle.
“When you believe it deeply, how would you expect yourself and others to behave? Be clear! Part of your personal vision ”Part of your personal vision.
The Power of a Leader to Influence
Leaders
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“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
Ralph Waldo Emersonp
Leaders Lead the Way by Demonstrating Ideal
B h i !Behavior!
#2 Leaders Are Honest…With Themselves And Others
Must be able to see realityMust be able to see reality
People must say the truth
Only from the truth can
improvement emerge
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#3 Leaders Are Humble
Leaders Understand Vulnerability = Strength
Leaders Challenge Own Beliefs
Leaders Ask for Feedback and Listen Carefully
Leaders Avoid Blame and Accept Accountability
Leaders Feel the Pain
Leaders Get Help When They Need it
Leaders must be a bit public…to demonstrate
#4 Leaders Value The Potential In Everyone
Leaders believe in the Untapped Potential of
Every Person
Enables a perspective and options not possible
otherwise
Leaders Show Respect While Making Hard
Decisions
Potential on one hand Disappointments on the Potential on one hand…Disappointments on the
other
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#5 Leaders Ensure Systems Align With Principles
Ensure systems are designed for optimum Ensure systems are designed for optimum
results and optimum behavior
For every principle, identify the key systems to
align
Teach reinforce and support managers Teach, reinforce and support managers
#6 Leaders Balance the Scorecard (For Real)
Leaders Focus on Both Results and Behavior
Ideal That Ideal Behaviors Flow From
Principles
Leaders Create Personal and Organizational
Focus on Principles!
Make Both Visible to Everyone & Are
Accountable
Describe Results Through the Lens of Principles
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Conclusions Sustainable excellent results requires a sustainable
excellent culture
Culture is changed one person at a time Culture is changed one person at a time
Building a sustainable culture of excellence is the
hardest work you will do (and most rewarding)
Culture without principles is unsustainable (Diffusion)
Requires changes in thinking…Requires changes in thinking…
Leader’s role that cannot be delegated… “Building
Culture Grounded in Principles”
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Thank You! Questions?
R b @ h l d hiE il [email protected] (435) 512‐2508robertdmillerwww.archesleadership.com
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