Why It's So Hard to Change Minds to Spread Improvement
February 11, 2020Frustrated that you can't expand the improvement culture beyond an initial small group?
Having trouble convincing senior leadership to...
6 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Achieve Employee Performance Improvement
July 22, 2015When 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...
"The Macgyver," and 7 Other Continuous Improvement Awards You NEED
July 21, 2016We’re always talking about recognizing and rewarding employees for engaging in continuous improvement, and constantly run up against the...
What This Hospital Does To Get Employees To Speak Up To Improve Safety
July 21, 2016At KaiNexus, we strongly believe that the first step in improvement is getting people to speak up. That means making it safe for everybody...
5 Ways To Piss Off Your Employees and Kill Continuous Improvement
July 21, 2016Leaders play a critical role in establishing and supporting cultures of continuous improvement in their organizations. They set the tone...
A Lesson in Kaizen from Yellowstone National Park
October 28, 2026This video is making the rounds on LinkedIn, have you seen it yet? It’s a video about how wolves caused a "trophic cascade” in Yellowstone...
Two Essential Ingredients for Effective Cross Functional Collaboration
August 28, 2015Most business leaders recognize the advantages of effective cross functional collaboration and encourage it within their organizations....
Office Safari: How to Spot an Engaged Employee in the Wild
March 23, 2015According to a Dale Carnegie survey of more than 1,500 employees, fully 71% are not engaged. So while engaged employees aren’t exactly as...
No Time For Continuous Improvement? Try These Tricks.
April 2, 2015One of the most common arguments we hear from people regarding why they’re unable to create a culture of continuous improvement is that...

