by Patrick Adams | May 5, 2023 | Articles, Lean Leadership
I realized that planting the garden is really the easy part. Usually the plants we put in are small, if not just seeds. They can be placed in the soil with nothing more that a pencil pushed into the ground to create the hole, and a quick brush of soil to cover the...
by Patrick Adams | Apr 28, 2023 | Articles, Lean Leadership
I’ll admit it. I don’t celebrate my birthday anymore, and haven’t for a long time. Its not that I am unappreciative of achieving another year on this earth, I just don’t think I did anything important enough to achieve the milestone. Not to mention, birthdays at my...
by Patrick Adams | Apr 21, 2023 | Articles, Lean Leadership, Operational Excellence
What’s the worst thing that can happen? I’m sure many of us can come up with a dozen or so responses to that question. Too often we are held back by the countless things we imagine might go wrong when we think of proposing a new way of doing something. We stick with...
by Patrick Adams | Apr 14, 2023 | Articles, Lean Leadership, Operational Excellence
I’ve never really been a fan of heights. My roof at the highest point is thirty-eight feet from the ground. Years ago, I actually went up there. Visiting the roofers when my house was built to take in the sights was truly breathtaking. Now, it would still be...
by Patrick Adams | Apr 7, 2023 | Articles, Lean Leadership
The days of five-year-old soccer games are just a fond memory for me. I can still picture the random players crouched down, fixated on that bright yellow dandelion sprouting up from the fresh green grass. Not a care in the world. No awareness of the mass of...
by Patrick Adams | Mar 24, 2023 | Articles, Lean Leadership, Problem Solving
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ―Ernest Hemingway Imagine how many people are comparing themselves to someone else. Really the only person we should be comparing ourselves to is who we...
