Lawrence M. Miller
Coach, Author and Speaker
High Performance Organization Design and Leadership
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The Strategic Value Stream - How Organizations Create Wealth
Competing in the New Capitalism
Lawrence M. Miller & Associates provides consulting and training services to help build the “lean” organization and a culture that is focused on continuous improvement and business performance. We have been involved in the human side of quality improvement, creating the team-based organization, for thirty years. As one of the early proponents of employee involvement and quality management we have seen the field develop through fads and fantasies to sound management principles. High performing organizations require the personal skills and leadership at the top, the skills of continuous improvement at all levels, and the organization structure and systems that enable lean processes and customer focus. We are prepared to facilitate the development of these critical components that lead to business success.
Our mission is to improve our client’s business performance while enhancing the culture and competencies of the client’s managers and organization; to contribute to the material, intellectual and spiritual wealth of the client; and to advance the skills and knowledge of our field.
New Book by Lawrence M. Miller
Coming in June, 2006: Competing in the New Capitalism: How Individuals, Teams and Companies Are Creating the New Currency of Wealth:
We are now competing in a new economy in which success will not be defined by money alone. The game has changed and to play in the new economy you will need to master the code that provides the keys to competitive success.
First, high performance results from the disciplined, willful exertion of virtue. This is the root cause of wealth creation. There are proven disciplines that are the currency of the new capitalism. I have identified nine disciplines that characterize high performing organizations, teams and individuals.
Second, there are five forms of capital that are linked together in a whole-system. To achieve sustained high performance we must redefine our understanding of corporate and personal wealth. The very game of free enterprise, needs redefining through acquiring a new understanding of capital. Most companies and many countries have not begun to focus on the real currency of modern competition.
Third, maximum performance only comes when seeking the highest ideal at three levels – the individual, the team and the organization as a system. These three levels are interdependent and success at one level leads to success at another. There is magic in the pursuit of the ideal, defining how to get there, and the struggle to reach it.
There is a formula, a simple way of remembering the path to high performance and true wealth. This is the culture code that when unlocked is the cause of both wealth and happiness, corporate or personal.
9 x 5 x 3 = 1
This book is about the voluntary, self-initiated, self-organized, free enterprise transformation of capitalism into something better. Capitalism is transforming, not simply because of the external force of regulation, but because of the internal exertion of virtuous self-interest.
Read about Competing in the New Capitalism on our publications page.