The Edges of Lean, by Bella Englebach
Continuously Improving Your LinkedIn Profile with Daniel Alfon
When I first created my LinkedIn account, I added my name, and a nice picture and uploaded my resume. It turns out, for those of us who work as consultants and coaches, those resumes on L…
Do you have a website? If you’re like me and have a website (like I have at leanforhumans.com), you know that you need to work on your search engine optimization (SEO). And if you’re like me and most others, how to do that can be a complete mystery. Bra…
One of the secrets of getting to “flow” in a work process is to “level the load.“
Not overburdening the process and managing the natural volatility of inputs has a remarkable effect on productivity. My guest, Kevin Gazzara, has insights into how to do t…
The role of a good coach in continuous improvement is a key to CI success.
At some point, we all need to step into the role of a coach whether as a leader, a professional coach, or simply coaching others in our day-to-day interactions. Sam Morgan has be…
In Lean, we know the value of getting ideas from the people who are doing the work, especially when it comes to ideas for improvement. But what happens when your organization feels like it is too big to get ideas from everyone effectively? What if you’r…
Practicing Lean changes your brain. Do you agree? I know for me, repeating the patterns of the Plan-Do-Check-Act, or the pattern of the improvement kata, and because of using and adapting lean tools, I think very differently from the way I used to think….
In continuous improvement, we love our numbers. Data is the bedrock of knowing what our current situation is, and whether we are improving. Kevin Palmieri is the CFO, Founder & Co-Host of Next Level University, a Global Top 100 Self-Improvement podcast w…
Kaj Smit was a typical student with a typical life – until the day he woke up in a hospital and learned he had suffered two brain hemorrhages. Physically he had to start over again and mentally he was in a very dark place. What does it take to recover f…
Today we’re talking about knowing your priorities and achieving your goals. So often we get bogged down in the day-to-day, and we lose sight of what’s important to us. In this episode, we’re going to talk about how to identify your priorities and how to …
In this episode, Fiona Valentine joined me. We’ve talked a lot about what continuous improvers can learn from artists, and about how and why we can’t practice continuous improvement without building our skills for creativity. Fiona Valentine is an artis…
