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The Official Baldrige Blog

Harry Hertz “The Baldrige Cheermudgeon”

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Retirement Plus Five

So, How is Retirement? This is a question I frequently get asked as I approach the fifth anniversary of my retirement from being the director of the Baldrige
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Three Powerful Questions

I recently had the privilege of attending the 12 th Annual Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Performance Excellence (MAAPE) Conference. There were many excellent
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A Time to Think

Three of the questions in the Senior Leadership item in the Baldrige Excellence Builder are: 1. How do senior leaders set your organization’s vision?; 2. How do
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The Challenge of Information Analytics

The catch words in many research papers and business briefs today are big data, data analytics, and digital integration. Whatever it is called and no matter how
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Ethics: Is the Onus on Business?

I recently read the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer Global Report. This study, in its 17th cycle in 2017, consisted of an online survey of over 33,000 respondents
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From Take Work to Make Work

For me, it started with e-mail on my laptop computer, progressed to cell phones, and then to text messages. When I accepted my first managerial position, I took
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Lots of Activity, No Progress

I recently read an HBR blog entitled, "How Aligned Is Your Organization?" The authors attributed a lack of internal organizational alignment to four reasons
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