Tag: Failure

Fred Noe of Jim Beam: Leadership Lessons on Mistakes, Innovation, and...

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Over the years, I've had the opportunity to meet and listen to many leaders across industries--healthcare, manufacturing, tech, and more. But two of the...

95% of Enterprise AI Pilots “Fail”–Just Like Lean? Not So Fast

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Every few years--or let's be honest, quite often on social media--we see a statistic making the rounds: "70% of Lean initiatives fail." It's usually...

Kakorrhaphiophobia: How Fear of Failure Sabotages Continuous Improvement and Innovation

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When I first came across the word kakorrhaphiophobia, I thought it might be one of those obscure terms you learn once and never use...

Lean Isn’t Just About Cost: Stop Putting a Stick in Your...

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There's a meme going around -- maybe you've seen it -- where a kid on a bike jams a stick into his own front...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 9, 2025

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...

Wisdom from a Fortune Cookie: Succeeding via Obstacles and Failures

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Sometimes, wisdom comes wrapped in unexpected packaging--like a fortune cookie. Recently, my friend Alan Wikler, Psy.D., came across one with a simple yet profound...

Lean Failure Explained: When Command-and-Control Leadership Sabotages Success

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How Often Does This Happen? It's a story I've heard too many times. An organization spends years, even decades, entrenched in a top-down, command-and-control culture....

Book Giveaway: Two Books About Learning From Mistakes & Failure

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Here's a great opportunity for you to win TWO fantastic books--one for you and one for a young reader in your life! For the adults:...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of the First Half of...

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 9, 2024

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...

Redefining Failure: Lessons from Serial Entrepreneurs on Navigating Setbacks

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tl;dr summary: In this exploration into the complexities of failure and learning, I draw from a range of entrepreneurs to debunk myths and advocate...

A Workplace Culture Where “FAIL” Means First Attempt in Learning

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Below is some material that I wrote, but didn't use, in my book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and...
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