Six Disciplines Business Excellence Franchise

Looking for an interesting MBA-level professional services franchise or career opportunity? Have a look at Six Disciplines (http://www.sixdisciplines.com/). The Six Disciplines (TM) Methodology is based on practicing a series of repeatable cycles to promote executive, manager, and organizational learning. Step 1 requires the team to decide what is important. Step 2 involves setting goals that exercise leadership. Step 3 promotes alignment of internal groups and systems. Step 4 fosters working the plan. Step 5 encourages team members to innovate toward the purpose behind the goal. Step 6 uses what was learned as 360 degree feedback for improvement in the next cycle. I like this cookie cutter approach; the Six Discplines system could work for many medium-sized businesses that have lost the focus provided by an entrepreneurial presence. What I thought was nonsense was the notion of an annual performance appraisal in Step 6; personal feedback should be continuous, as team's change too fast and feedback more than a few weeks old is typically irrelevant to the person and the process.

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Six Discplines (2007). http://www.sixdisciplines.com/