The Lean Leadership Essentials

The Lean paradigm is not just a set of tools and techniques for structured improvement. It is also a state of mind that brings increasing...

Can Hippo Leadership Please Be the Next Trend in Business Management?

Many of you read my post last week about a Stanford Business article regarding problems inherent to top-down teams and how to solve them....

How to Get People to Embrace a New CI Software Platform

Introducing a new technology platform to your staff for any business function is a daunting task, and continuous improvement software is no...

Why Your Political Beliefs are Confusing, and How that Applies to Work

First off, while this blog post may be about the extraordinary election going on in the United States, this is not a partisan plea. Sorry...

Don’t Leave Your Visual Management Abilities in the Car

The human brain processes visual images much more easily than it can text. That’s because processing visual information is innate. A...

Think You Are Credible? Think Again.

When it comes to gaining traction for a change in an organization, credibility trumps reason. Establishing such credibility demands we are...

XYZ Thinking: Practical View of Scientific Thinking in Healthcare

The greatest achievements are often accomplished from scientific thinking. Scientific thinking can be applied to any industry, especially...

Is Accidental Deception and Coercion Slowing Your Improvement Culture?

5 Traits of Continuous Improvement Leaders That YOU Need To Develop

We’ve written extensively about the importance of viewing continuous improvement as everyone’s job, and why a bottom-up approach to...