Game Changer: Udemy and the Mass Market Age of Online Learning
Udemy has just changed the game for professional training and development. Today Udemy made an...
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Category: Lean Management
Google’s Team Research – Habits, Relationship, Trust are What Matters
Google’s Research on Their Own Teams Google is one of the smartest companies on earth today....
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The End of Money as Power
How many times have we heard that “money is power?” It is one of those cliches that has been spoken so many times that one assumes it must be true. Perhaps it was. In both the political and the business world there is a tectonic shift that is proving that what may have been true at some time in the past, is no longer true today. Understanding the on-going shift to other forms of power is essential to successful business and political strategy, now and into the future.
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Cuba, Lean and the Virtues of a Non-Standard World
We live in a world of standardization. Lean manufacturing or Toyota Production System is necessarily based on standardization, repeatable processes, identical parts, designed for ease of installation and reliability. But, what if every automobile was not the same as every other one and had its own story to tell? What if every car had a completely unique history and no two cars had the same parts? What if there were no replacement parts – no Autozone or NAPA, or dealership parts department? Welcome to Cuba!
Read MoreLeadership & My Prayer for New Year’s 2016
As a student of leadership I must offer my hopes and prayers for the coming year, and to do so I will defer to the wisdom of George Washington. It will be a critical year and those of us who give serious thought to the subject of leadership have a responsibility to speak out. I will avoid becoming overtly political, but this year will be dominated by politics. The subject of leadership and how or why voters choose leaders cannot be avoided.
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