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Build A Winning Team 0
- Lean Management, Teamwork
- May 8, 2017
If you create a high-performance team, you can exert tremendous leverage to create value. If not, you’ll face severe difficulties because no leader can hope to achieve ambitious goals on his or her own. Poor personnel choices will usually come back to haunt you. Finding the right people is essential, but it’s not enough. Begin
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Lean Quote: Overcoming Resistance to Change 0
- Lean Quote
- May 5, 2017
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 #109 (#1636 – 1650)0
- Lean Tips
- May 3, 2017
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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Lean Quote: Don’t Just Posture Excellence – Be Excellent 0
- Lean Quote
- April 28, 2017
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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Digital Leader Standard Work With HabitHub 0
- Lean in Practice, Sharing Best Practices
- April 26, 2017
Several months ago I talked about the importance of leader standard work. There is no such thing as self-sustainability, it requires ongoing effort. Organizations need to follow a disciplined process of on-going activity by all. Leader Standard Work is the system that provides a structure and routine for leaders. It set standards for expected behaviors of
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Four Essential Elements for Creating a Lean Culture or Management System 0
- Change Management, Lean Management
- April 24, 2017
Culture is the sum of people’s habits in doing their work. Changing culture should not be targeted per se, instead target the management system and the culture change will follow. 20% of a Lean transformation is covered by physical changes and the other 80% is more difficult because it involves deeply ingrained work habits. A
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