How to get the most out of your company’s lean leadership training
Many senior leaders and senior staff do not understand the fundamentals of lean. It’s one thing to recite knowledge of lean, and another to live lean every day—both on the
Why do lean efforts fail?
In a social media and email survey, Daniel Penn Associates asked operations experts why lean efforts fail. Here are the seven most common reasons cited, with a sampling of participants’
Four Ways Lean Supports DEI and DEI Supports Lean
Lean is successful when we empower people to improve how they work together. DEI is successful when people understand and set aside preconceptions that pose barriers to teamwork. In today’s
What’s Missing from DEI Initiatives?
Filling in the missing pieces is not all that difficult. But the emotional content of these issues, a history of inequity and the inertia of organizational culture have exacerbated our
How to get OCM Right: Questions and Steps to Lasting Change
Is your business contemplating operational change? Most organizational change programs fail is they don’t take thoughts and emotions into account.