My guest for Episode #501 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Marcia Daszko, a speaker, workshop facilitator, and consultant.
For more than 25 years, she has passionately been speaking, consulting, and guiding executive teams in Fortune 500/private corporations; education, the U.S. Navy; and non-profits to achieve exponential success.
Mentored by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, she is nominated for the International Deming Prize; and writes a leadership column for the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She has taught MBA classes at six universities.
Marcia’s author of the book Pivot Disrupt Transform: How Leaders Beat the Odds and Survive. She was also co-author of Turning Ideas into Impact: Insights from 16 Silicon Valley Consultants.
Questions, Notes, and Highlights:
- How did you get connected to W. Edwards Deming?
- What was it like spending time with Dr. Deming?
- Not just statistics? Challenging ideas like performance appraisals
- “Change management is another management fad”
- Tell us more about the consulting work that you’ve done and do?
- “Identify your problems accurately to problem-solve”??
- Helping leaders with “Accelerate efficient, effective data-driven decision-making”??
- Accountability and responsibility — big difference
- Am I blaming executives unfairly???
- 3 Fundamental Business Strategies?
- “Hope is not a business strategy”
- Continual vs. Continuous?
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