How to Host a Pre-Mortem Examination and Keep Your Projects Alive

Have you ever had a project fail miserably, only to find out - too late - that there were people on your team who predicted exactly what...

6 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Achieve Employee Performance Improvement

When I was growing up, my grandma frequently quoted the old adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It didn’t make much...

5 Ways Whole Foods is Doing Right by Process Improvement

Rapid Continuous Improvement: What's the Rush?

“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition,...

Give Me Your Malcontents: Secrets to Innovation at Pixar

I’m always on the lookout for stories about innovative companies, but it’s not often that I’m floored by what I find; innovative companies...

6 of the Best TED Talks to Inspire Great Leadership

There's nothing like a great TED talk to inspire you. I think I could sit here and watch them all day long. Who couldn't, when you have...

Exceptional Leaders of Innovation Lead Differently [TED Talk]

Linda Hill is a business professor and ethnographer who throws conventional leadership wisdom out the window with her approach to leading...

The Kaizen Exploration: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Question: What was the tallest mountain on earth before Mt. Everest was discovered?

Troubleshoot Your Improvement Culture (For Free!)

At KaiNexus, we know that it's really hard to establish a sustainable culture of continuous improvement. And when you're struggling to...