Former Toyota leader Mark Reich explains why Hoshin Kanri is not a top-down planning exercise, but a leadership system for aligning strategy, developing people, and managing on purpose through dialogue, PDCA, and shared ownership. Scroll down for how to subscribe,…
Does jargon–or Japanese terms like ‘Hoshin Kanri’–get in the way of clear communication in your organization? It reminds me of the classic Saturday Night Live ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ sketches, where Sean Connery (played hilariously by Darrell Hammond) would completely misread category…
GE Aerospace calls its Lean operating model “Flight Deck.” At the company’s 2024 Investor Day, Larry Culp described how it connects strategy, daily management, problem-solving, and leadership behaviors. What stood out to me was the emphasis on safety before quality,…
TL;DR: Larry Culp’s AME keynote shows that Lean leadership at GE is about how leaders think, learn, and respond to problems–not tools. Katie Anderson and Mark Graban discuss psychological safety, gemba, learning from mistakes, and building culture through daily leadership…
