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Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 81| Adapt How You Lead: Situational Leadership in Practice [with Suzie Bishop]

Your leadership style isn’t the problem. Your default is. The gap between how you’re leading and what the person in front of you actually needs is one of the most …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 80| Bad News First: How a Leader’s Response Builds a Culture of Learning [with Isao Yoshino]

How many problems are actually visible in your organization? Research shows senior leaders see just 4%. The other 96% stay hidden — invisible, yet still there. And some aren’t even …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 79| Build Powerful People: Why Transformation Starts with Your Own [with Gary Peterson]

Efficiency and cost savings aren’t what makes operational excellence last. People are. The leaders who create enduring, high-performing organizations are after something beyond business results. They want a company where …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 78| Strategy Isn’t Enough: 9 Practices to Help Your Team Meet the Moment [with Karina Mangu-Ward]

Have you poured months into a strategy your team couldn’t bring to life? Or watched capable people work harder than ever, and still struggle to pull together as a team? …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 77| Lead with Joy: A Business Strategy for Success [with Rich Sheridan]

Joy isn’t a perk. It’s a business strategy. Have you ever wondered whether work has to feel this hard? Whether the team you’ve built can actually function without you? Whether …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 76 | What Is the Purpose of Kaizen? John Shook Answers Your Questions (Part 3 of 3)

What does it really take to sustain a culture of continuous improvement –  through pressure for results, across generations, and into an era of AI? In this final episode of …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 75 | The Human Side of Lean: John Shook on Building Systems That Last (Part 2 of 3)

Lean has always been about people. We just kept reaching for the tools, without understanding the human purpose behind them. In part two of my three-part conversation with John Shook, …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 74 | What Problem Are We Solving? John Shook Reflects: Has Lean Failed? (Part 1 of 3)

Has lean really failed? That question sparked one of the most listened-to conversations in the history of this podcast — my two-part series with Jim Womack in episodes 37 and …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 73 | Small Steps, Leading with Heart: How Transformation Sustains [with Richard Koch]

The way you’re leading transformation might be getting in the way of the culture you’re trying to build. As change leaders and practitioners, we care about results. But in that …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 72 | Finding Clarity Through the Messy Middle: Reflections from My Book Retreat [with Betsy Jordyn] (BONUS)

The messy middle is part of the learning process. It’s the point where what worked before no longer fully fits—but what comes next is not yet clear.Where your thinking is …

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