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The Mistakes That Make Us is a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award from the Shingo Institute!Hi :Three years ago, my book "The Mistakes That Make Us" came out. Around the same time, Elisabeth Swan published "Picture Yourself a Leader." Two diff...
Three years ago, The Mistakes That Make Us came out. Around the same time, Elisabeth Swan published Picture Yourself a Leader. Both books' third birthdays felt like a decent reason to get together and talk. On Thursday, May 7, at 1 PM ET, Elisabeth a...
Scott Burgmeyer, founder and CEO of Become More Group, has spent more than 30 years watching smart people make avoidable decisions — not because they lack intelligence, but because they stopped thinking. In this episode of Lean Blog Interviews, we ge...
Ford spends roughly $100,000 a year on each of its first-line production supervisors. The title on the job posting is “Process Coach” – language borrowed directly from Lean thinking. The role description talks about Sounds great, right? Online job bo...
Dr. Melisa Buie spent years trying to avoid failure — until she realized the bigger mistake was disappearing after a win and treating rest as the finish line instead of part of the cycle. The author of Faceplant: FREE Yourself from Failure's Funk sha...
The Mistakes That Make Us is a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award from the Shingo Institute!Hi :I haven't mentioned this here yet, but I'm writing a new book. It's a practical guide for Lean leaders on psychological safety -- why so many impro...
The Mistakes That Make Us is a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award from the Shingo Institute!Hi :There's a limit to what you can learn about the Toyota Production System from books, courses, and conferences. I say that as someone who writes the...
The Mistakes That Make Us is a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award from the Shingo Institute!Hi :I'm giving away 10 free quarters of the Lean Hospitals AI Coach. Here's how to get one.If you own a copy of Lean Hospitals -- any edition, any lang...
The Mistakes That Make Us is a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award from the Shingo Institute!Hi :Here's something odd about AI coaching tools: they're all trained to be maximally helpful, which means the moment you ask a question, they give you...