Thanks for Stopping By,
Larry Miller
Welcome to Management Meditations
on Leadership, Learning and Culture
This website provides resources for those implementing lean management, lean leadership, and the now the mandatory “hybrid organization.” The courses and information you will find here are based on forty-five years of field work implementing high performance empowered teams and empowering organization 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 to support excellence in management and leadership. I now have more than 160,000 online students. Please see both my own course platform Leadership-Academy.Online and my courses on Udemy.
Featured Courses
on High Performance Teams, Lean Leadership, Lean Culture and Lean Management
Recent Blog Posts
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...
Tesla and the Social Side of Success
Elon Musk at his Tesla factory is striving to create the world’s most automated manufacturing plant. But, the people side, the social system, is the weak link that is causing Tesla to stumble.
Lean Leadership – The Dance to the Rhythm of Challenge and Response
It would be wonderful to believe that simply sharing knowledge of a better way would result in the adoption of that better way. If only we were rational beings. But after assisting dozens of companies with their efforts to institute a lean culture, it is very obvious that the success of those efforts is directly linked to the quality and constancy of lean leadership. Lean Leadership and Lean Culture require very specific actions on the part of leaders and I do not think those actions of been well articulated in previous books and articles. I have attempted to define these actions in my new course on Lean Leadership and Lean Culture and I want to summarize them here.
Lean Culture, Lean Leadership and Change Management
Lean Leadership and managing change to create lean culture are critical skills for all managers today. I have just published a thorough, six and a half hour course on lean leadership and culture that is now available on Udemy.
Leading Virtual Teams
One of the critical skills for leaders in our global age is facilitating virtual teams. Here is a report on a recent survey on the problems and best practices of virtual teams.
On Retirement… Or, Not!
Retirement is not all that it is advertized to be, unless you keep on using your strengths. This article by Inc. Magazine focuses on me and Udemy.
Fast Company Interview on Hiring
You might find this interesting: https://www.fastcompany.com/40471573/this-is-why-job-candidates-should-interview-each-other BY STEPHANIE VOZZA In a traditional job interview, the interviewer is in the driver’s seat, controlling the questions, pace, and format of the...
The Power of Principles
Dear Friends, Over the past year I have had increasing concern in regard to what I must call a crisis in leadership. It is not only in the U.S., but a global crisis. We desperately need to raise a generation of ethical, principled and positive leaders to move our...