• 7.8Make Your Bed: Small Habits That Can Change Your Life

    Make Your Bed: Small Habits That Can Change Your Life0

    In 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven delivered a now-legendary commencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin. The central message was deceptively simple: Make your bed every morning. This advice later became the foundation for his bestselling book, “Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World.” At first glance, making your

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  • 4 Tips for Success When Implementing Lean

    4 Tips for Success When Implementing Lean0

    Lean Manufacturing is a business improvement philosophy that has developed over many years (as well as a collection of lean manufacturing tools), it is a method to better focus your business on the true needs of the customer to help you prevent waste from being built into your system. When properly implemented, lean manufacturing provides

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  • Five Factors for Managing Productive Change

    Five Factors for Managing Productive Change0

    For virtually everyone change means hard work, risk, and the need to learn new ways for unproven benefits. Change is one of the most difficult things for humans to readily accept. Charles Darwin said, “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones who are most responsive to change”

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  • 8 Common Reasons Organizational Change Fails

    8 Common Reasons Organizational Change Fails0

    It happens time and again. I’m sure you’ve either witnessed it or suffered through it — the failed attempt of a large change at an organization. Maybe it was with a new process or switching over to a new technology. Maybe it was a change to the structure or the metrics. Whatever it was, it

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  • Business Lessons from the Fall Season to Embrace Change

    Business Lessons from the Fall Season to Embrace Change0

    Something magical happens in September. The air is crisper and clearer; the trees start to turn from pine green to an array of gold, copper, and bronze; and the sense of something new and exciting happening lingers around every corner. The start of fall feels like a new beginning – a fresh start. The long

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  • Fear is Poor Motivator for Business Transformation

    Fear is Poor Motivator for Business Transformation0

    Those of us who are familiar with Continuous Improvement programs all know the term “burning platform”, an expression used to describe a situation where a company or organization needs to take drastic action to survive. The concept has gained popularity as an effective way to motivate employees and stakeholders to make a real change. In

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