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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Micromanagement with the Power of Trust0
- Leadership, Respect For People
- April 9, 2025
Micromanagement: Everyone knows the term. Micromanaging is a method of management in which an individual closely observes or controls the work of an employee. In comparison to simply giving general direction, the micromanager monitors and evaluates every stage in a process, from beginning to end. This behavior negatively affects efficiency, creativity, trust, communication, problem-solving, and
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Strategy Planning and Deployment: A Tool to Achieve Excellence0
- Quality Magazine, Strategy
- April 7, 2025
Strategy is not about doing the important things but rather the process of choosing and deciding the plan forward. Image Source: Morsa Images / E+ / Getty Images Plus Traditional planning methodologies focus on steering an organization in the direction desired by top management, often referred to as management by objective (MBO). Unfortunately, as we
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Lean Quote: Listen to the People You Lead0
- Lean Tips
- April 4, 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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6 Strategies to Coach Your Employees to Succeed0
- Leadership, Respect For People
- April 2, 2025
Coaching is a difficult skill for many leaders to acquire. It’s vague and slow. Leaders tend to want to move quickly toward defined goals, reach those goals, and immediately move on to the next set of goals. Coaching is frustratingly elusive to understand and seemingly convoluted in the doing; it is much easier to direct
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Lean Roundup #190 – March 20250
- Lean Roundup
- March 31, 2025
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of March 2025. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Toyota Raku: Respect for People, Comfort, Ease, & Ergonomics – Mark Graban shares his experience to a Toyota plant that focused on raku–making work easier, more comfortable, and more accessible
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Lean Quote: Growth and Development of People is the Highest Calling of Leadership0
- Lean Quote
- March 28, 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 #313 (#3721 – #3735)0
- Lean Tips
- March 26, 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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Focus on the Vital Few for Better Outcomes0
- Productivity
- March 24, 2025
Productivity isn’t necessarily about how many things you get done every day, but rather how many of the right things — the things that add the most value to your customers and your business — that you accomplish. Considered in a slightly different way, sometimes what you don’t do is just (or more) important than
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Lean Quote: Leading with Integrity0
- Lean Quote
- March 21, 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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