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My New Look
For those who have read my blog for a while you will definitely notice my new look. I hope you like it.I hope it is easier to read, cleaner and easy to navigate. I have become a bit dangerous because … Continue reading
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Beyond Tahrir Square: Managing Large Scale Change
In my previous post on this subject I suggested lessons from the Egyptian revolution to the world of corporate leadership. Now I do the reverse.
I would like to address the ruling military officers of Egypt and the other leaders who are now finding themselves in the midst of turmoil in the Middle East. They all are confronted with the problem of “managing large scale change.” This is not a new thing. Many companies and countries have been through this before. So… here is an open letter to the Generals of Egypt, and to all others to whom it may apply. Continue reading
Publication Announcement: Lean Culture – The Leader’s Guide now available on Amazon
Lean Culture – The Leader’s Guide provides a road map to implementing lean culture within your organization. This guide represents the knowledge gained through thirty-five years of field experience implementing large scale change in the culture of organizations. This guide presents the principles and process of changing organization culture to capitalize on the competitive advantages of lean. Continue reading
Gross Workplace Happiness – Can it be Measured and Does it Matter?
Rudiger Fox who is the CEO of PFW Aerospace AG, a leading tier one supplier to the aviation and aerospace industry in Germany,has taken the components of Gross National Happiness and applied them to his corporation. He has developed a measurement methodology and strategic plans to improve Gross Workplace Happiness. Continue reading
Decision Making Chaos on the Deepwater Horizon
It appears clear now that the Deepwater Horizon, the Transocean drilling rig under contract with BP, suffered from poorly designed decision processes. Continue reading
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Tagged BP, decision-making, Deepwater Horizon, safety
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Management Waste – Get Lean and Eliminate It!
One of the core ideas of Lean Management is the elimination of waste. This usually means eliminating unnecessary tasks, motions, inventory, rework, etc. However, the new challenge for lean management is to improve the efficiency of management itself. Much management … Continue reading
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So What Happened to Toyota???
Last week I was at a client and I was explaining some point of lean culture and I used an example from Toyota. The union president who was in attendance stood up and said “I’ll tell you one thing, you better not tell us to do anything because Toyota did it. Ten people in the past week have come up to me and told me that we aren’t doing anything because Toyota does it.” That about sums up the sentiment out there. Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, quality problems, Toyota
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Lean Team Management
Before we sold Miller-Howard Consulting Group to Towers Perrin in 1998, the core of our work was implementing team-based organization. We had two workbooks that defined our process and enabled our clients. These were the Team Management manual and Change … Continue reading
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Sustainable Wealth
Among other things, and the BIG thing I am working on now is a re-write of the New Capitalism book. So, why am I re-writing? That book had already been through several revisions and it took me a while to … Continue reading
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