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What Makes a Good Leader?0
- Leadership
- April 13, 2015
Leadership is not the sole responsibility of top company executives. Leaders are needed at every level of the organization. Although management is a leadership position, not all managers are leaders, and not all leaders are managers. Leadership is a mix of skills, attitude, will, and motivation. To become a leader you must want it and
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Lean Quote: Demand Commitment By The People Involved 0
- Lean Quote
- April 10, 2015
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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Process vs People Improvement 0
- Respect For People
- April 8, 2015
In most companies, Lean Thinking quickly becomes focused on process improvement. This type of improvement is easier, more obvious, measurable, and seemingly more profitable and transferable than people improvement. That’s why most places make the mistake of reporting only process improvement metrics. People get taken for granted. This occurs because (so called) Lean experts don’t
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Coaching Is Critical to Develop a Lean Thinking Mentality 0
- Leadership
- April 6, 2015
Coaching is a difficult skill for many leaders to acquire. It’s vague and slow. Leaders tend to want to move quickly toward defined goals, reach those goals, and immediately move on to the next set of goals. Coaching is frustratingly elusive to understand and seemingly convoluted in the doing; it is much easier to direct
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Lean Quote: Blaming Means Failing 0
- Lean Quote
- April 3, 2015
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 Leaders Focus on Development 0
- Leadership, Lean Management
- March 30, 2015
Successful leaders understand the difference between things and people in an organization. They know that it’s important to manage things, but that it’s even more important to lead people. Leaders don’t just mouth empty phrases like “people are our greatest resource;” they demonstrate by their actions that people – not strategy, products, plans, processes, or
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