{"id":930,"date":"2017-11-20T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:03:58","slug":"top-change-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/top-change-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Down Change Doesn&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Everyone seems to think that top down, leadership-driven is the only way to implement Lean Six Sigma. It&#8217;s not.<\/p>\r\n<p>50 years of research proves that it fails half the time. Yep, 50% failure rate. That&#8217;s less than 1 sigma.<\/p>\r\n<p>This type of failure is so common that it even has a name: The Stalinist Paradox.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/238454687?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to think that top down, leadership-driven is the only way to implement Lean Six Sigma. It&rsquo;s not. 50 years of research proves that it fails half the time. Yep, 50% failure rate. That&rsquo;s less than 1 sigma. This type of failure is so common that it even has a name: The Stalinist Paradox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,3,5,7],"tags":[243,379,118,168,241],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","category-lean","category-qi-macros","category-six-sigma","tag-culture-change","tag-leadersship","tag-lean-six-sigma","tag-qi-macros","tag-top-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}