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HPO success factor: Continuous Improvement & Renewal (Innovation)

This video is about one of the High Performance Organizations (HPO’s) success factors: Continuous Improvement & Renewal (Innovation). The presentation from André de Waal during the book event ‘What...

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HPO Factor Management Quality: Integrity

Integrity is defined as ‘moral uprightness.’ HPO managers show their integrity by having a strong set of ethics and standards according to which they live and practice business. They practice what they...

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Hygiene Factors That Stops You From Becoming Real High Performance?

In my latest book ‘What Makes A High Performance Organization’ I have written about hygiene factors (for instance about the bonus as hygiene factor). But for many people the difference between these...

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What’s Wrong with Western governments?

By André de Waal Ever since I published the results of my research into the characteristics of high performance, I have attracted much interest from both profit and non-profit organizations. I have...

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Photo report: André de Waal at NEH in the Philippines

Did you know that bananas are considered one of the healthiest foods in the world? That is, according to the World Food Federation, who describes the fruit as “wonderfully sweet with firm and creamy...

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Management Quality: Strong leadership

Strong Leadership is defined as ‘the ability of leading a group of people or an organization, which is not easily damaged or overcome, able to withstand opposition and has determination.’ HPO managers...

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5 ideas to get started to create a ‘unique strategy’

One of the characteristics in the HPO factor ‘Continuous Improvement & Renewal’ is having a unique strategy. Unique is defined as ‘of which there is only one, unequaled, having no like or equal.’...

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The myth of economic growth

Chief executive officers can place their organizations, and themselves, in severe difficulties by promising the stock market that their companies will grow 15 percent in turnover a year. In itself it...

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Wissensaustausch – HPO-Eigenschaften Offenheit und Handlungsorientierung

Wissensaustausch wird als “die Tätigkeit durch welche das Verständnis eines Themas mit anderen Menschen geteilt wird” definiert. Wissen wird als eine der wertvollsten Ressourcen der heutigen...

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The HPO Framework: guideline for mergers

KEY MESSAGE As is well known by now, the majority of mergers and acquisitions end in failure. Failure in the sense that expected synergies – either in cost savings or complementary portfolios – never...

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8 reasons for organizations to excel

The main reason for starting an HPO Diagnosis is management’s strong wish for the organization to excel. In addition, there are quite a few other reasons for starting the HPO-diagnosis. Here is a list...

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The end of economic growth … the start of social growth?

The business world currently stands at a crossroad: (a) either try to return to the old ways of the nineties and the beginning of this century, or (b) choose a fundamentally new way of doing business....

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Ideas to inspire your employees

To become an HPO it is a precondition to hire and retain the right employees. These are people who have an incurable curiosity, want to be challenged, need to have responsibility and at the same time...

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Good Management Does Make Sense!

Recently I read a newspaper piece called ´Managing? What Nonsense!´ In this article, the writer joins the choir in lamenting the uselessness of managers, stating that the position of manager should be...

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If You’re Using These Management Methods, You’re Wasting Both Time and Money!

Organizations that aim to earn the label HPO, or “High Performance Organization,” can draw upon literally hundreds of management techniques, methods and activities to help them reach this enviable...

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