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Baldrige Fellowship Begins with Executives Exploring the Challenges of Leadership in a Changing World of Work

June 9, 2022

Almost everything about leadership—including how to adapt in a post-pandemic world, lead a hybrid workforce, and overcome burnout among skilled staff members to

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Three Organizations Win 2021 Baldrige Awards for Performance Excellence

March 4, 2022

WASHINGTON — Three U.S. organizations will receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential award for performance excellence

Seeking Input on the Baldrige Excellence Framework

January 6, 2022

What are the leading-edge, strategic, and competitiveness challenges that you are facing in your organization/industry (or seeing in the organizations with whom

Baldrige 2022 Examiner Application Now Open

November 29, 2021

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program® (BPEP) is seeking applicants for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award® Board of Examiners for the 2022 award

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Baldrige: The Foundation of High Performance

June 21, 2022

There are currently more than 4.5 billion search results for the term “high performance,” depending on your preferred search engine. There’s clearly significant

Business Excellence 101: Gain Unique Leadership Insights as a Baldrige Fellow

June 14, 2022

Business Excellence 101 Blog Series In this blog series, we are highlighting the many resources that are available to help you learn about Baldrige, improve

Inspire a Performance-Driven Superteam that Gets Results

June 7, 2022

The famous British naturalist Charles Darwin once said, “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent that survive, but those who can best manage change.” If

Building Trust as a CEO in 2022: Are You Thinking about Focus and Constant Reinvention?

May 31, 2022

It has once again been a little more than two years since I last summarized the topics that are keeping CEOs up at night. And what a ride we have had over the

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Jo Ann Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer, AARP Inc.
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I was able to establish invaluable connections and garner insights into how other leading organizations are developing and implementing innovative, effective strategies in support of operational excellence and leadership development. A significant insight is that the leadership and senior management must model its organization's mission consistently, with passion and enthusiasm. They must truly "walk the talk"—particularly during times of change.