Lean Roundup #185 – October 2024

A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of October 2024.  You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here.  

 

Leadership Failure: How Refusing to Be Wrong Hurts Teams and Innovation – Mark Graban explains true leadership isn't about projecting infallibility–it's about fostering a culture where mistakes are seen as opportunities for learning and growth.

 

How to Promote Continuous Improvement in The Workplace – Maggie Millard shares 7 actions that will help you create the culture you need to be successful for your organization involving continuous improvement.

 

TPS and Agile – Pascal Dennis explains why Agile and the Toyota Production System (TPS) are entirely simpatico.

 

 3 Practices to Become a Skillful Facilitator – Katie Anderson shares three tips to follow if you want to create impactful experiences that inspire change and drive results.

 

Creating Future Leaders: Essential Tools for Youth Organization and Growth – Alen Ganic shares five key lessons he learned helping youth address struggles so they can unlock their potential and set them on a path to success.

 

What are Good KPIs? – Christopher Roser digs deeper on what KPIs are good, and how you can go wrong with (too many?) KPIs.

 

On the Quality of KPIs – Christopher Roser looks at the quality of key performance indicators (KPIs) as it impacts management’s decision-making and subsequent actions.

 

Keeping Classroom Technologies Functioning: Application of lean principles improves computer-repair operations - By and George Taninecz share the strategies that helped Trafera streamline workflows, enhance team collaboration, and improve efficiency of their repair operations.

 

From Agile Fatigue to Experimentation: Finding a Better Way in Development - James Morgan explores the limitations of agile and how Lean Product and Process Development can close its gaps.

 

Lean Failure Explained: When Command-and-Control Leadership Sabotages Success – Mark Graban explains how Lean will fail if leadership maintains a rigid, top-down approach that disregards the voices of the employees who do the actual work.