Tag: Innovation

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

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TL;DR: Fred Noe of Jim Beam offers powerful leadership lessons on learning from mistakes, small-batch experimentation, and long-term thinking. His approach shows how psychological...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 22, 2025

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This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape focuses on disciplined thinking, ethical use of data, and people-centered improvement in an AI-enabled world. From...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 8, 2025

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This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape explores how organizations build improvement capability through goals, learning, and culture--not gimmicks or shortcuts. From designing...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 30, 2025

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This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape challenges leaders to rethink how they use data, technology, and culture in the pursuit of improvement....

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 16, 2025

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This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape explores the tension between short-term optimization and long-term improvement. The selections highlight why stability must come...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 20, 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...

Executive Summary on Cultivating Psychological Safety and Continuous Improvement

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TL;DR: Psychological safety is a leadership imperative for continuous improvement. When leaders create environments where people feel safe to speak up, learn from mistakes,...

Leveraging Lean & AI in Optometry: Ankit Patel’s Journey from Dell...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #509 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Ankit Patel, the founder...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 28, 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...

Embracing Creative Tensions: Wendy K. Smith on Both/And Thinking and Lean...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #507 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Wendy K. Smith, co-author...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: April 5, 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...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 23, 2024

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...
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