Creating Sustainable Wealth in Your Life and in Your Business
Wealth Founded on Values and Worthy Purpose Over the past several years I have been working on a...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Apr 23, 2016 | Human Capital, Innovation Capital, Social Capital, Spiritual Capital, The New Capitalism | 0
Wealth Founded on Values and Worthy Purpose Over the past several years I have been working on a...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Jan 6, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Lean Culture, Lean Management, Social Capital, Team Development, Toyota Production System | 9
Healthy families in which there is high trust result in high academic performance. This is “family social capital.” Similarly, the team at the first level is the foundation of social capital in the organization. This social capital is a key factor in generating continuous improvement and achieving high job satisfaction and retention of employees.
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Oct 8, 2013 | Corporate Culture, Leadership, Lean Management, Managing Change, Social Capital | 3
We need to have a serious conversation, not simply about the budget or the healthcare law, all of which can be improved, but about the unity of the country and the spirit of party about which we were well warned in the infancy of this nation. Washington was passionate about this one principle of unity and he could see that the greatest threat to our country was not external forces, but internal division. He could see that division would lead to “parties” and those parties would develop a spirit that would be a cancer to the country.
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Jan 23, 2013 | Corporate Culture, Human Capital, Leadership, Lean Culture, Lean Management, Lean Manufacturing, Organization Design and Process Improvement | 5
The return of jobs by GE to its Louisville Appliance Park is the best evidence yet of a new trend and it is important that every company engaged in manufacturing consider the key elements that make this a sound business decision. It is an example of “macro-lean”, the creation of processes that unite major functions in the organization.
Read MorePosted by Lawrence M. Miller | Jul 16, 2012 | Corporate Culture, Corporate ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership, Spiritual Capital | 0
Stephen Covey died today. Stephen was a truly “good man” in every reasonable sense of that word. He did his best to practice what he preached and what he preached was not simply good management, but moral, spiritual, ethical conduct in the board room, the workplace and in the home.
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