Tag: Leadership

tl;dr Lean doesn't work without psychological safety. Toyota understands that continuous improvement depends on people feeling safe to speak up about problems, mistakes, and...

Former Toyota leader Mark Reich explains why Hoshin Kanri is not a top-down planning exercise, but a leadership system for aligning strategy, developing people,...

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TL;DR: A new poll shows that psychological safety at work is often fragile--nearly half of respondents say it "depends on the boss." Real improvement...

We all say mistakes are a part of learning. Or at least many of us do, as individuals. But how many organizations actually act that...

Recently, I had the pleasure of moderating a webinar titled "Driving a Culture of Transforming Patient Safety with KaiNexus" featuring leaders from Our Lady...

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Nearly 30 years ago, I had my first real encounter with what not to do as a leader. I was working in a General...

What happens when a CEO treats Lean as a growth system instead of a cost-cutting program? In this episode, Bill Canady shares how he...

One of the most powerful elements of continuous improvement is the ability to learn from each other across organizations--even across industries. That's one of...

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"The whole point about aviation safety is that you have to have the humility to understand that you are imperfect, because everybody screws up....