Lean Strategies For Lean Leaders And Their Teams

From time to time, Lean crusaders will make mistakes and find their ideas marginalized in the corporate competition for resources and air time with executives. Don't despair, go back to steps 1 and 2 and start again. Find out where you made your mistakes and learn from that. Move forward with confidence. If you quit when the going gets rough, you'll never reach your Lean Future State.

Change at the Work Place - Don't Move that Cheese

Change in life is inevitable. As sooner as we can adopt to change the better we will be able to position ourselves and make the best out of it. This is especially true when it comes to change at work.

The Unhappy Couple: Change and Improve

In order to change, there need to be an urgency. In the story below, there is none.

Dealing with Change and Change Management

This is a helpful document for those of you Dealing With Change issues at home or in your work life. It tries to help you think about Change Management as something you can work with rather than be the victim of...

Management, Change and... Stakeholders

Do not forget the stakeholders. Make a view of the categories and within this view elaborate on subsets.

Leaning Health - Transforming the Health Service

Lean is a concept whose time has come in transforming the Health Service and this article provides a proven model for implementing rapid, significant and sustainable change across primary and secondary health services.

How to Inform Employees When You Sell a Business

What is the best way to inform employees when you sell your business? Wait until the transaction is a done deal.

The REAL International Gold Standard: The Leadership Talk

Summary: The global economy has been a fact of life for decades now. But the author asserts that most leaders don't understand the right kind of leadership to propel those organizations to great global success. Here is a blue print on how to make your leadership truly effective on an international basis.

New Year's Sales & Marketing Resolutions

It's a great time to dust off your playbook and think about what your strategic plans are in sales and marketing for the coming year. A good way to start is to start by taking your management team through a series of new year's resolutions.

Turn Your Team Into Top Performers

Most of us have known a few LOSERS in our career. Problems surface and we face challenges. Who are the ones we call losers? Where did they come from? How did we end up with them on our payroll? Who hired them?

Changing Organizations

Organizational change is always difficult because behavioral patterns must be completely rearranged. This aspect will result in a tendency to resist change. The question is: how and when do organizations change? In this article three theories of organizational change will be discussed.

What Do We Need To Change?

When we talk about managing change, what is the change that we are seeking to manage. Unless we are sure what it is and how to go about it then how can we ever hope to manage it?

Balancing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Change Processes

Managers' behavior is the single most important variable in the success or failure of any organization's change or improvement effort. This starts with recognition that the organization is full of current or potential change champions.

Moving Beyond Fear for Small Business Success

How to article for small business owners to get out of fear and move to success. For the successful small business owner, here are keys to getting out of overwhelm and taking charge of their business. This is one of the major keys to small business success.

TPM and Lean Production, is It Worth the Effort?

Guidelines how to estimate costs and benefits from advanced management techniques as TPM and Lean Production