• There is a Lack of constancy of purpose.
• There is an Emphasis on short-term profits.
• There is Evaluation by performance, merit rating, or annual review of performance.
• There is Mobility of management (resulting in high staff turnover)
• There is Running a company on visible figures alone.
• There is Excessive medical costs (this point is related more to the American Market, but we could reframe this as the cost high costs that companies bare of early retirements and redunduncies)
• There are Excessive costs of warranty and Litigation, fuelled by lawyers who work for contingency fees.

There are these Lesser Category of Obstacles also mentioned by Deming:

• Neglect of long-range planning.
• Relying on technology to solve problems.
• Seeking examples to follow rather than developing solutions.
• Excuses such as “Our problems are different”.

Here are three different perspectives on these seven deadly diseases:

1. csqa
2. riskmanagementinsight
3. curiouscat

Coming next: The final principle of Creation Companies: Applying “New Psychology” and “New Science” to the Business

A Creation Company can be thought of as a place (business) where the work systems, work processes, work culture, work management and work leadership are aligned with people and how people work best. Where such alignment occurs this can lead to extraordinary results. When the systems do not get in the way of the work, human spirit and human joy and passion unfold. When alignment happens between people and systems, the work can “flow”, unimpeded by artificial constraints, boundaries, controls or hierarchy. When the work is aligned with how people like to work, then every person in the business is able to perform at their very best, such that everyone has the opportunity to produce extraordinary results. When there is such alignment, individuals have a sense of control or influence over the work and a sense of responsible for their own work

The Fundamental Principles for creating a Creation Company

Tom McGehee says there are three fundamental principles for a Creation Company (and ANY company can generate the excitement, energy, confidence, and audacity of the “whoosh” of a Creation Company by subscribing to these fundamental principles):1)     A  leadership style free from command-and-control principles2)     A corporate culture that values individual expression and collaborative work3)     An understanding that success means creating the new not replicating the oldFrom my personal experience, I would also add two additional principles required for (long-term) Creation Company performance (this makes it five principles in all) and these will be discussed in the next blogComing next:  Five Working Principles of Creation Companies