by Patrick Adams | Feb 11, 2023 | Articles, Operational Excellence
How important is it that we see the big picture? Aren’t we just a tiny piece of a much bigger picture? Surely someone else will also be working on, or tending to this issue. Well, we might be surprised how many other people think the same way. One thing is for sure,...
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...
