by Patrick Adams | Feb 3, 2023 | Articles, Lean Leadership, Strategy & Innovation
Can we all agree the ’80’s created some great music? I still remember walking down the street with a huge boom box on my shoulder. I even had the dual cassette tape set-up so we could record our own mix tapes. Ah, life was good! Or was it? The...
by Patrick Adams | Jan 16, 2023 | Articles, Operational Excellence, Strategy & Innovation
Your overall business strategy should be made up of short-term and long-term goals. If we fail to set and align long-term and short-term goals, we are setting our businesses up to fail. For example, a business may be laser focused on just this quarter’s profits...
by Patrick Adams | Dec 23, 2022 | Articles, Lean Leadership
In my last article, I asked the question: Have we established 1-year goals and are they moving us closer to the long term goals? But what about the plan to get us closer to our 1-year goals? Given the busyness of life and work, it’s nearly impossible to stay on track...
by Patrick Adams | Dec 17, 2022 | Articles, Lean Leadership, Learning, Strategy & Innovation
Wanting to succeed is a natural and worthy desire; but success does not always require struggle and suffering. It can be relatively painless, and done in such a way that you are having fun even when you’re working extremely hard. The key to unlocking effortless...
by Patrick Adams | Dec 2, 2022 | Articles, Change Management, Culture & Engagement, Lean Leadership
How do we best facilitate change within our organizations? Better yet, how do we initiate the right kind of change today? The answer is simple: Kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese word made up of two distinct characters: One character means ‘change’ while...
