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Kata is for Everyone with Sam Morgan
In this episode, Sam Morgan and I discuss his personal journey into launching his coaching business to include his personal use of kata to make it happen. We discuss the use of kata for both business and personal applications. How did you get to the point...
Do you Identify Customer Requirements and Discuss how to meet Demand Regularly?
Keeping your customers happy really shouldn't be that hard; you just have to give them what they want (right the first time), when they want it, and in the quantity that they need. Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned. Part shortages, equipment breakdowns,...
Humanist Manufacturing with Dr. Joe Sprangel
In this episode, Dr. Joe Sprangel and I discuss Humanist Manufacturing. Joe explains the Humanist Manufacturing Framework to include the humanist commitments necessary for leader success. What You'll Learn: What is Humanist Manufacturing? Could you share...
Do the Majority of People View Your Organization or Parts of Your Organization in Process Steps?
I recently spent some time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. While there I took one of my days and visited Mackinaw Island. It was just a short ferry ride to be transported to another world. Mackinaw Island truly felt worlds away when you experience the lack of...
Do the Majority of People Operate With a Big Picture (Value Stream) Mindset?
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,...
Is Your Organization Designed to Share Information, Goals, Priorities, and Processes?
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 '80's were also the time...
Are Your Short Goal Setting Cycles Aligned With Your Long-Term Goals?
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...
Are You Operating on 90-day or Similar Goal Setting Cycles?
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...
Lean Product and Process Development Events
In this episode, I am presenting our teams approach to lean product and process development events. This was a presentation I gave at the LPPDE virtual conference last month. You may be wondering why we haven't been posting regular episodes...we are...
Does Your Organization Have Long Term and 1-Year Goals? Are They Aligned?
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...