Thanks for Stopping By,
Larry Miller
Welcome to Management Meditations
on Lean Management and Culture
This website provides resources for those implementing lean management, lean leadership, and the now mandatory “hybrid organization.” The courses and information you will find here are based on forty-five years of field work implementing lean management and lean culture in dozens of major corporations.
For the past forty-five years, beginning with the redesign of a prison to create a learning environment that reinforced desired habits, I have been working to create healthy organization cultures. I reject rigid adherence to any one theory or methodology, but choose to learn from all and to integrate all into a holistic understanding of behavior and the systems of organization.
In my very “semi” retirement I am entirely focused on developing online learning. I now have more than 135,000 online students. Please see both my own course platform Leadership-Academy.Online and my courses on Udemy.
Featured Courses
on Lean Leadership, Lean Culture and Lean Management
Recent Blog Posts
Leadership and What Made “America Great” in The First Place
Intellectual Curiosity and Reason: I am reading Steven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now in which he goes over the transformations in thought brought about by the Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth century. Our Founding Fathers - Jefferson, Madison, Paine, etc....
The National Crisis of Trust: Every Leader Must Do Their job!
It is the job of leaders to create trust between leader and led, between the institutions of governance and those who are governed. Udemy recently asked me for comments on this topic that were just published in FastCompany Magazine. My friend, Payam Zamani, tech...
Virtual Teams are Now, Everywhere, and Everyone is on One! Lead them Well!
The Covid-19 crisis has everyone working remotely and in teams. Here are some tips and a short course to make your virtual team meeting successful.
Seize The Opportunity in Crisis
With daily reports of the spread of the Covid-19 virus, cancelation of conferences, closing of schools and corporate travel restrictions it is time to think creatively about how to respond to the crisis. Within every crisis is the challenge of creativity, to try out new ways of thinking and getting the job done.
For the New Year – Adopt A System of Lean Learning
Lean Leadership requires a deliberate system of continuous learning.
Selling in the Spirit of Service
My bet is that you do not identify yourself as a “sales person.” You are probably a change agent, a manager, or leader. My second bet is that you must be able to sell your ideas, yourself, and your products or services to others...
At the Heart of Truly Powerful Organizations
(A guest post by Natasha Miller Naderi, and yes, she is my daughter, I am proud say and building her consulting business in Beijing.) Once a child asked a wise man, “why do all the rivers flow into the powerful ocean?” The wise man replied, “because it sets itself...
A Meditation on the New Year
Dear Friends, I first want to wish all who have taken any of my courses, read my books or blogs, a truly happy and peaceful Christmas (Chanukah, or any Holiday) and best wishes for the coming year. I am truly grateful that I have had the opportunity to be of some...
You’re Fired!
These may be the most feared words in any corporation. Unfortunately, it has become a too often used phrase in American politics, intended to impart the image of a strong and decisive leader. But, if you are a competent manager you know that these words are the...
The One Leadership Principle… We Need Now!
I am going to write a series of posts on leadership issues I consider extremely important. I would like to have your undivided attention for just a few moments. There is a dominant theme that runs through all of my online courses and writing and it is the primary task...