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What is Accountability, and Why is it Important?0
- Leadership, Teamwork
- July 2, 2025
Accountability means showing up and setting out to accomplish the things you’d said you’d do. It’s about taking personal responsibility for your work. It’s also trusting in your teammates and knowing you can count on each other to get things done. Accountability in the workplace can mean that all employees are accountable for their own
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Lean Roundup #193 – June 20250
- Lean Roundup
- June 30, 2025
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of June 2025. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Project Management is Daily Management at Menlo Innovations – Mark Rosenthal shares his benchmarking trip to Menlo where their project management process stood out to him. How One-Piece Flow
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Lean Quote: A Relentless Bias for Action Pushes Ideas Forward0
- Lean Quote
- June 27, 2025
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Lean Tips Edition #317 (#3781 – #3795)0
- Lean Tips
- June 25, 2025
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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How to Equip Leaders0
- Leadership
- June 23, 2025
In the team, you as the leader always want to get things done. It is not just simply telling people what do they need to do. It will not develop their true potential in the team. Without utilizing their potential, meaning you put your own mind into a team’s work, you cannot gain benefits from
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Lean Quote: Courage in a Leader Inspires Commitment from Employees0
- Lean Quote
- June 20, 2025
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Overcoming the Dysfunctions of a Team0
- Teamwork
- June 18, 2025
In my last post I exposed Lencioni’s five potential dysfunctions of a team. Addressing and overcoming each of the five dysfunctions is a crucial step toward improving team performance and success. Let’s explore each one – and uncover strategies for teams to navigate a clear path to success. 1) Absence of trust Trust is the foundation
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Teamwork: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team0
- Teamwork
- June 16, 2025
One of the most interesting models of team effectiveness was developed by Patrick Lencioni (2005). According to him, all teams have the potential to be dysfunctional. To improve the functioning of a team, it is critical to understand the type and level of dysfunction. There are five potential dysfunctions of a team in Lencioni’s model:
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Lean Quote: Good Leaders vs Great Leaders0
- Lean Quote
- June 13, 2025
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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