Tag: Leadership
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 28, 2024
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Psychological Safety: Ensuring People Get Their Say, Even if They Don’t...
Psychological Safety means everybody gets their say, but it doesn't mean you get your way.
Psychological Safety is an individual's belief, feeling, or perception that...
Embracing Creative Tensions: Wendy K. Smith on Both/And Thinking and Lean...
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My guest for Episode #507 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Wendy K. Smith, co-author...
Art Byrne: Lean from the CEO’s Perspective, the Lean Turnaround Answer...
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My guest for Episode #505 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Art Byrne, who was...
Uncovering Root Causes: Beyond the Conference Room – The Lean Approach...
You don't find the root cause of a problem in a conference room.
OK, so we've gotten away from the whiteboard. Now what?
You might not...
Rewriting the Management Gospel: Lessons from Hayes, Abernathy, and the Frontlines...
Professors Robert H. Hayes and William J. Abernathy have harsh words about a common, if not typical style of American management:
"...an overdependence on analytical...
Transforming Leadership: How to Shift from Blame to Systemic Improvement
How often do you hear executives blaming employees, including frontline workers, for different problems or poor performance?
I don't think that's a good look when...
Embracing Challenges for Success: Lessons in Toyota Culture and Kaizen from...
I have been really enjoying this book, released in 2021, by Kiyoshi "Nate" Furuta, a retired Toyota executive: Welcome Problems, Find Success: Creating Toyota...
Lean from a General Manager and Executive Perspective: DeWayne Allen
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My guest for Episode #502 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is DeWayne Allen, an executive,...
Turning Bad News into Building Blocks: Cultivating a Culture Where Mistakes...
Embracing Imperfections and Learning from Mistakes: A Leadership Insight from the 2022 AME Annual Conference...
In a riveting conversation between Larry Culp (at the time,...
Bring Me to Speak at Your Health System’s Quarterly Leadership Forum
I recently spoke and facilitated at a health system's quarterly leadership forum event on the topic of "Psychological Safety as a Pre-Condition for Continuous...
My Piece for IndustryWeek: Boeing Executives Failed to Lead, Waved Off...
I wrote this piece for IndustryWeek... it starts:
"In January, passengers, crew and the public were stunned by the latest high-profile incident involving a...