Tag: Mistakes

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At the hospital on Monday, a chaplain shared a Thanksgiving poem on the theme of being grateful. It struck a chord with me. As a Lean practitioner, it's easy to focus on the waste... the problems... the gaps. We think about what could be and the "ideal state." We strive for perfection and it's easy to lose site of what we have.

What Pickleball Taught Me About Kindness, Kaizen, and Culture "Don't worry about your mistakes--you're learning." That's what an instructor said during my first 1x1 lesson at...

A Delta Air Lines flight attendant accidentally deployed an emergency slide, causing $70,000 in damage and delaying passengers for hours. It sounds like a...

I recently gave a virtual keynote for a global manufacturing company that's a customer of KaiNexus. Their leaders wanted to explore how to strengthen...

Lessons from my book The Mistakes That Make Us, plus conversations with Phillip Cantrell and Damon Lembi One of the central themes in my book, The...

Over the years, I've had the opportunity to meet and listen to many leaders across industries--healthcare, manufacturing, tech, and more. But two of the...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #534 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dale Lucht, co-author of...

For years, trucks have been crashing into low-clearance bridges along Boston's Storrow Drive, to the point where locals have coined the term "Storrowed." Even...

When I launched the My Favorite Mistake podcast in September 2020, I hoped to create space for leaders and innovators to share the moments...

How long would you expect it to take for the police to respond to a burglar alarm at your home? Why do I bring this...

The most dangerous moment in Lean is often right after your first belt class--when you think you've mastered it all. You may have seen the...