Monthly Archives: January 2023
Progress on My Upcoming Book About Learning From Mistakes (and Possible Mistakes I’m Making)
I've mentioned before that I'm writing a book based on -- inspired by -- the interviews, stories, and insights from my guests on the...
Free Webinar Recording: Connecting Continuous Improvement to the Bottom Line
I might not be the most financially-literate Lean practitioner out there. I'm fortunate to have an MBA on top of my engineering degrees, so...
Creating a Growth Mindset Culture in the Classroom: How Teaching about Mistakes Can Inspire...
A colleague from KaiNexus sent me a photo from his daughter's third-grade classroom. It's titled "The Magic of Growth Mindset," a reference to the...
Why Start the New Year with Blank Charts?
Charts like this always make me wonder why we throw away the additional context of data from 2016 when we start the 2017 chart.
It's unlikely that January 1st in any given year is the magical creation of a new system or a new process. In other words, January 2017 was likely the same process as December 2016. The annual cutoffs are arbitrary. Sure, people are accustomed to thinking in annual cycles, but is this helpful for improvement?
