Lean Quote: The Real Horrors We Should Fear
- Change Management, Lean Quote
- October 30, 2026

A sense of urgency in leadership is often cited as a critical factor in whether organizations adapt successfully or fall behind. Leaders who communicate urgency create momentum, focus attention, and mobilize people toward action. However, urgency can either enable progress or create burnout if it is misunderstood or misapplied. Strong change management leadership requires
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A couple of weeks ago Art Byrne shared his tried-and-true strategies that leaders can deploy to encourage everyone to adopt Lean. This got me thinking about management buy-in itself. Management commitment is a “must” to any initiative. The employees of the organization will not care, if the management themselves do not show the attitude to follow
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Project management is planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Every company goes through change at some point, whether it’s a minor change or a large-scale transformation. When change happens, your business must have a solid project management plan in place to ensure that everything
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With COVID-19 cases recorded in more than 140 countries, the novel coronavirus has become a global health crisis that is disrupting lives in countries around the world. In the U.S., restaurants, bars and offices have been closed, conferences canceled and kids kept home from school in an attempt to slow the spread. President Trump has
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Leaders in organizations across industries are always looking to “speed-up” a lean transformation. Most organizations prefer to take small incremental steps away from their current business model and target a set of initiatives that still falls close to their existing position. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want
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This month’s ASQ’s Influential Voices topic is about change leadership. In today’s current climate transformation is a common term and transformative efforts are a regular occurrence. Although these efforts are common, according to Harvard Business Review two-thirds of large-scale transformation efforts fail. Research has proven that effective leadership is crucial for a change initiative to be
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