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Five Ways to Motivate Your Team With Empathy and Authority 0
- Engagement
- July 8, 2020
A crisis pressure-tests leadership and culture. Many new values are formed under the strain, and employees gain new perspectives on their organization and its leadership. Communication is the key to keeping them motivated and productive in a season of enormous distraction. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t my first financial crisis. No matter how well you run
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Book Review – The Conclusion Trap: Four Steps to Better Decisions 0
- Book Review
- July 6, 2020
Why do organizations and individuals so often struggle to make good decisions, investing enormous amounts of time and money in fruitless efforts to solve thorny problems? Too often, our mistake lies in jumping to conclusions before we even understand the problem we’re attempting to solve. Dan Markovitz’ The Conclusion Trap gives us a straightforward guide
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Lean Quote: Freedom Lies In Being Bold 0
- Lean Quote
- July 3, 2020
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Focus on Countermeasures Not Solutions to Problems 0
- Problem Solving
- July 1, 2020
Inherently, in Lean problem solving is the heart of what we do. Murphy’s law is an adage that broadly states: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” It is therefore inevitable that businesses must solve problems. Organizations cannot improve unless they consistently seek out and solve their problems. But are your focused on the
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Lean Quote: Lean Like All Great Achievements Require Time 0
- Lean Quote
- June 26, 2020
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Lean Tips Edition #156 (#2551-2565)0
- Lean Tips
- June 24, 2020
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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