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<p><span><span><span>Laurence (“Larry”) Smith is a long-time advocate of quality and systems-thinking-based management of U.S. businesses. In the early 1980s, while he was leading a chamber of commerce in northeastern Massachusetts, Smith recognized “the need for a transformation of American management,” he told me recently. A learning experience that inspired him to appreciate a holistic, systems view of business leadership and management was a four-day workshop his chamber sponsored in his community by the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming. “I learned to think of quality as a 360-degree process that includes quality of life,” Smith recalled recently.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><strong>Would you please share more about how you came to believe the <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="00b6643c-f609-4ef9-baab-8a71ecca6aa9" href="/baldrige/publications/baldrige-excellence-framework" title="Baldrige Excellence Framework">Baldrige Excellence Framework</a> (which includes the Criteria for Performance Excellence) provides a superior approach to business leadership and management?</strong></p>
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<p><span><span><span>Let me share a few background experiences that led me to this conviction: In the 1980s, after getting an MBA (majoring in executive management), I thought I knew something significant about organization management. Actually, I’d pursued the MBA because my BS in industrial technology education didn't prepare me for management or managing organizations in a globalized economy. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>Then, in 1980, we learned about how <a href="https://deming.org/deming-the-man/">Dr. W. Edwards Deming</a> helped Japan recover economically from the war, and we wondered if he could help our communities recover, too. Our community leaders invited him to our community, and he told us that the major problem was that the American style of management was ineffective in the new environment of a globalized economy and that we needed a transformation of American management. We invited him to teach us how to transform American management so that it could be competitive and profitable in the new, globalized economy. I applied Deming’s thinking in my chamber of commerce work, which enabled us to be one of the 10 percent of chambers of commerce in the nation to be accredited, and to win a top award in the President’s Citation Program for Private Sector Initiatives in 1985. The award was for finding innovative private solutions to public problems. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>From 1995 to 2008, while editor of the <em>Journal of Innovative Management</em>, I attended the annual Baldrige <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="23d30ad2-c593-44c9-bd9a-331612798174" href="/baldrige/qe" title="Quest for Excellence Conference">Quest for Excellence® conference</a> in Washington, DC. I heard the presentations and talked with <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="bdeeec3c-bf68-472c-ba58-e0d39237fc49" href="/baldrige/award-recipients" title="Baldrige Award Recipients Listing">Baldrige Award winners</a> as well as other attendees, and we developed journal articles. Then I retired, but worked for a year in 2010 to help the Massachusetts Council for Quality recover from its deficit and try to grow its Baldrige programming.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>In our society, I think people are often rewarded for outstanding individual behavior. Winning—being number-one in individual competitive exploits—reaps the top reward. That’s true both for individual people and individual organizations. But human organizations are complex communities of relationships. To be successful and sustainable, everyone has to work smartly, cooperatively, and—as I learned in the Coast Guard—to be always ready, relevant, and responsive to the environment, nature, people, and communities in which they live and serve. That requires participative, systems-based management processes, which Baldrige teaches and rewards. But our schools have not been teaching that to people in the past, so they don’t understand it. I hope that’s changing now.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>There’s another reason, too: systems-based customer- and quality-focused management is also a movement away from traditional command-and-control styles of management to a participative style of management. The Baldrige approach does it all, creating a clear and measured process system, from leadership to results, one that links and documents an organization’s results all the way back up to leadership decisions; and that can stimulate some fear </span>from top management<span>, depending on how organizations deal with and learn from mistakes.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>I asked that question of a business graduate school professor who was on my Massachusetts Council for Quality board. His answer was that business school systems are organized in individual “stove-pipes,” where each professor attends to his or her specialty. That’s understandable because individual students take individual courses to get individual degrees to get individual jobs in individual companies. Few, if any, are dedicated to an integrated whole. The result is that there’s little interest in a holistic, systems-based, comprehensive approach to organization/community/national/world leadership and management for the common good. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>The outcome of that is that there is little recognition of the need for leaders of all organizations to be interested and informed about working on the larger systems they’re living in, as well as working in the systems that produce the money they need and want. Those big-picture affairs tend to be left to interested individuals who see a need and work it out for themselves. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span>In recent decades, business and industry leaders have tended not to think of the community as being a living part of their organizations that they need to care for. I believe that such inattention to the community by business leaders is a cultural error in judgment, perhaps created and made worse by the design of the monetary and economic systems in which we live and work that demand ever-increasing consumption and short-term monetary (paper) profits, which leads to problems in communities, nations, and the world. The matter is holistic and complex—something we tend not to be taught about in school or think about, and it is controversial when we do. </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span>There are times when a local chamber of commerce can help, but it’s not the sort of integrated systems approach that Communities of Excellence would enable. An example I can cite is what my chamber of commerce did in the 1980s. Two of our largest industries, which employed some 16,000 people, asked us to become involved with the local schools, encouraging higher graduation rates, higher grades, and a good work ethic. They said they needed that if they were to be able to hire from a local labor pool because it would be too expensive to move entry-level people into our local communities. That led us to create an extensive business-education collaborative that these two industries, along with many other businesses, actively supported and participated in. We actually created an adopt-a-school program where every school in the inner city was adopted by one or more businesses.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<div class="text-long"><p>Christine, your interview with Larry Smith was insightful and very well done. Larry’s observations and encouragement to all leaders (and citizens) to understand the direct connection between their individual, their organization and their community’s success is extremely important in today’s challenging environment. For our nation to continue to grow and prosper we must all make a renewed commitment to doing our part to help make every community as successful as possible. Using the Baldrige based Community Framework to guide communities in that important work will help ensure their long term health and vitality. There is really no more important work at this point in time in our nations history.</p>
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