10 Hashtags To Promote Your Culture of Continuous Improvement [Hack]
February 12, 2016Creating, spreading, and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement is no small feat. It requires leaders who consistently demonstrate...
Common Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Own Improvement Culture
January 19, 2016It doesn’t take a lot of deep thinking to conclude that a culture of continuous improvement is good for business. Who says, “Improvement...
A Short List of Easy and Effective Ways to Spread Innovation
July 21, 2016Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, said, “If you look at history, innovation doesn’t...
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Continuous Improvement Organization
December 29, 2015It’s that time of year again when we all resolve to lay off the Burrito Supremes and spend more time at the gym. Yet somehow, Taco Bell is...
4 Unexpected HR Benefits of Continuous Improvement
December 21, 2015Organizations embrace continuous improvement, sometimes utilizing business process methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean, in order to...
The Economic Cost of a Negative Company Culture - and How To Do Better
October 10, 2016A culture of continuous improvement is one in which employees are encouraged to speak up to make their work better. They know that they are...
Incremental Improvement and the Average Joe
October 11, 2023Imagine that on New Year’s Day, Average Joe decides he needs to get healthier. All he needs to do is: quit smoking, stop drinking, run 3...
It's Not Fight Club, and 3 Other Rules of Catchball
October 11, 2023In their book, Value Stream Management for the Lean Office, Don Tapping and Tom Shuker describe the continuous improvement technique of...
3 Beliefs that Damage a Culture of Continuous Improvement
October 9, 2015This picture wasn’t taken at a liquor store with a witty staff. It was taken at Safeway, a major grocery store chain with more than 1,300...