Comments on: Leadership

By: Ron Pereira

Ron Pereira — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:47:39 +0000

Thanks for the comment and link John. Cheers.

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Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:45:26 +0000

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By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:39:39 +0000

Thanks for the worthwhile post. My favorite management book is the Leader's Handbook by Peter Scholtes (he is a friend, so I am biased). A great book on many of the same ideas in the post.

By: Ron Pereira

Ron Pereira — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:55:19 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys.

I think the terms “results driven” may be misleading.

If you read the links in the post you will see what I mean by results driven… Or what the guys that coined the phrase meant.

Toyota is most definitely results oriented when you clarify what is meant by the terminology.

Thanks for the great comments guys.

By: Mark Graban

Mark Graban — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:10:55 +0000

Yes, I’d agree with Sean… Toyota leaders get results by managing the process. Traditional companies (oh, like Ford and GM) have been extremely “results driven”. That’s the “management by objectives” trap that Deming railed against.

So, yes, results matter to Toyota, but I’d be careful in using the phrase “results based” in our modern business environment, because that will be misinterpreted.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:43:00 +0000

Creating a results-based organization the wrong way is likely to drive people to distort the data, or distort the system, when we want them to improve the system.