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6 Ways Accelerate Your Lean Journey 0
- Change Management
- January 15, 2020
Leaders in organizations across industries are always looking to “speed-up” a lean transformation. Most organizations prefer to take small incremental steps away from their current business model and target a set of initiatives that still falls close to their existing position. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want
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10 Ways to Be a Successful Change Leader 0
- ASQ's Influential Voices, Change Management
- June 17, 2019
This month’s ASQ’s Influential Voices topic is about change leadership. In today’s current climate transformation is a common term and transformative efforts are a regular occurrence. Although these efforts are common, according to Harvard Business Review two-thirds of large-scale transformation efforts fail. Research has proven that effective leadership is crucial for a change initiative to be
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Lean Leader’s Role, A Shift in Mindset 0
- Change Management, Leadership
- June 5, 2019
Lean thinking is fundamentally transforming the way organizations operate. The Lean principles of continuous improvement, respect for people, and a relentless focus on delivering customer value are making teams and organizations rethink the practices that might have guided them for decades. A new, transformative approach to working requires a transformation in leadership, as well. For
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Lean Starts with Long-Term Thinking 0
- Change Management, Lean Management
- June 3, 2019
Lean isn’t just something you do, it’s something you become. The quest to become Lean is never-ending simply because there are always new ways to become even more Lean, even more streamlined, even more efficient. Beyond that…Lean isn’t easy. There are great benefits to be derived from organizations that take even just the first step
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The Formula for Successful Change 0
- Change Management
- May 15, 2019
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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3 Steps to Culture Change 0
- Change Management, Culture
- April 22, 2019
In business the only constant is change. That’s a good thing. Without change we don’t grow, and if we aren’t growing, we’re usually stagnating and dying. Changing your organization is difficult; I’ve heard it described as akin to turning and ocean liner — it can be done, but not quickly, without jeopardizing your success. And
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