A
selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of October
2024.  You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here.  

Leadership
Failure: How Refusing to Be Wrong Hurts Teams and Innovation – Mark Graban
explains true leadership isn’t about projecting infallibility–it’s about
fostering a culture where mistakes are seen as opportunities for learning and
growth.

How
to Promote Continuous Improvement in The Workplace – Maggie Millard shares
7 actions that will help you create the culture you need to be successful for
your organization involving continuous improvement.

TPS and Agile
– Pascal Dennis explains why Agile and the Toyota Production System (TPS) are
entirely simpatico.

 3 Practices to Become a Skillful Facilitator
– Katie Anderson shares three tips to follow if you want to create impactful
experiences that inspire change and drive results.

Creating
Future Leaders: Essential Tools for Youth Organization and Growth – Alen Ganic
shares five key lessons he learned helping youth address struggles so they can
unlock their potential and set them on a path to success.

What are Good KPIs? –
Christopher Roser digs deeper on what KPIs are good, and how you can go wrong
with (too many?) KPIs.

On the Quality of KPIs –
Christopher Roser looks at the quality of key performance indicators (KPIs) as
it impacts management’s decision-making and subsequent actions.

Keeping
Classroom Technologies Functioning: Application of lean principles improves
computer-repair operations – By and George Taninecz share the strategies
that helped Trafera streamline workflows, enhance team collaboration, and
improve efficiency of their repair operations.

From
Agile Fatigue to Experimentation: Finding a Better Way in Development – James
Morgan explores the limitations of agile and how Lean Product and Process
Development can close its gaps.

Lean
Failure Explained: When Command-and-Control Leadership Sabotages Success –
Mark Graban explains how Lean will fail if leadership maintains a rigid,
top-down approach that disregards the voices of the employees who do the actual
work.