5 Ways To Piss Off Your Employees and Kill Continuous Improvement

Leaders 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

This 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...

Office Safari: How to Spot an Engaged Employee in the Wild

According to a Dale Carnegie survey of more than 1,500 employees, fully 71% are not engaged. So while engaged employees aren’t exactly as...

5 Continuous Improvement Metrics That Your CEO Actually Cares About

A lot of people think of the CEO as the top of the ladder, accountable to no one. But just like the rest of us, a CEO has a management...

Continuous Improvement Leadership: 5 Things CEOs Can Learn from Chefs

I have always been interested in cooking. A few years ago, my wife convinced me to take a year-long professional cooking course. I learned...

Will Your Leadership Kill Your Culture of Continuous Improvement?

Check out that guy in the picture on the right. His employees are tossing some bright ideas into the funnel, and they’re raining down on...

No Time For Continuous Improvement? Try These Tricks.

One of the most common arguments we hear from people regarding why they’re unable to create a culture of continuous improvement is that...

When Continuous Improvement Leadership Should Use Bottom Up Management

One thing that business and healthcare continuous improvement leadership have to contend with, in many ways, is balance. For example,...

How To Increase Staff And Leadership Engagement in CI

Have you ever stumbled upon something and instantly recognized it as genius? This happened to me last night.

I have no idea how I found...