Colin D. Baird
Colin D. Baird is an operational turn-around and leadership consultant and the Managing Partner of Five Why Leaders. An organization that provides service to companies in crisis. He is also a consultant to TBM Consulting Group, a global leader in operational excellence with management consultants on four continents. Colin can be reached at colin@5whyleaders.com.
To Improve Faster, Choose The Right Problem To Solve
Smart humans do dumb things. Especially when we take action on something before understanding what problems lurk beneath their surface.
An Experiential Approach To Organizational Learning
CEOs gain maximum visibility into real time opportunities for continuous improvement of people, process, and profitability when they adopt an experiential method to leadership.
An Experiential Approach To Organizational Learning
When employees are empowered to share what they know, then experience that those concerns matter, organizational change becomes easier to facilitate.
5 Leadership Tools To Inspire Employees To Give Their Best
Understanding the distinction between managers and leaders is fundamental to increasing the speed at which people and organizations are continuously transformed.
5 Ways to Find Your Company’s Real Value
Understanding what Japanese statistician and engineer Dr. Genichi Taguchi taught can help today’s executives avoid aiming at the wrong targets for growing their businesses.
5 Steps to Getting the Most Out of a Good Consultant
Change: this time of year, it's in the air. And yet, the transformation of American leadership––that for years has been long sought after to improve America's employees and her manufacturing base–just never seems to materialize. When change becomes necessary, however, say due to a company crisis, that change just can't come fast enough for most CEOs.
How to Empower Employees to Make Their Own Productivity Improvements
In the world of business, good change is brutally hard. And changing a culture is even harder—that is, without demonstrating a better way for employees to physically and mentally do the work they were hired to do.
Ready to Dump the ‘Rank and Yank’ HR Review System? Consider...
When executives don’t perform well, sadly, sometimes they're fired. But when the company’s merit rating system doesn’t improve employees, do you fire it too?
Getting at the Root Cause of Internal Problems by Asking 5...
Learning requires we detect and correct errors in our thinking. But learning often requires we go beyond just one iteration of questions and answers to do so. Here's how to maximize learning and communications, even during difficult conversations.
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CEO Confidence Plunges On Tariff Fears In June
Amid announcements of new tariffs on China and, at the time of polling, Mexico, CEOs’ outlook for future business conditions plunged 6 percent from May to June, according to Chief Executive’s most recent reading of CEO confidence.
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