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Our instructor is Lawrence M. Miller with fifty years of experience implementing lean management, high performance teams, and creating more participative company cultures. He is author of eleven books on business management, and creator of sixteen online training courses that have seen enrollments of over 230,000 students.
Recent Blog Posts
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...
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.
