Continuous Improvement

What Six Sigma Gets Wrong About People

8 min readSix SigmaChange ManagementCulture

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Six Sigma's statistical rigor is powerful. But when organizations apply it without accounting for the human dimensions of change, they optimize processes while demoralizing the people who run them.

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Carla Boyd,

EdD

Exploring the intersection of learning, leadership, and what comes next — through essays on continuous improvement, education, and AI.  Disclaimer:  All views are my personal opinions and thoughts, past, present and future with minor editing using an AI multi-model orchestration layer using a framework Consensus of LLMs (CoL) in collaboration with GoDaddy.com.

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