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Turning the Lean lens on your career

By Kristi in July 27th, 2010 | 0 Comments

Seth Goodin’s blog yesterday was titled “Getting unstuck: solving the perfect problem”.

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One of Goodin’s perfect definitions speaks to jobs and what I refer to as career vision - those job outlooks “…that have...

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Gratitude in the Time of Downsizing: A Case Study

By Kristi in May 5th, 2010 | 0 Comments

This post is reprinted with Sean Doyle’s permission. I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I keep a gratitude log daily and such has provided incredible insight in my life and work.     

John A “Sean” Doyle is a psychologist and lawyer. Sean leads seminars and offers strengths-based consulting for individuals and...

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Employee Engagement – Myth or Madness?

By Kristi in February 23rd, 2010 | 6 Comments

Employee Engagement – Myth or Madness? 

My HR project many years ago was coordinating the company attitude survey.  This survey was constructed by a well known consulting firm.  It cost $75,000.00. It took 7 months to complete.  We produced huge notebooks of data.  Many follow-up meetings and Town Hall gatherings...

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Still Misconceptions about Lean and Toyota by Matt Wrye, Guest Blogger

By Kristi in February 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Still Misconceptions about Lean and Toyota

I make no excuses for Toyota. What happened goes against their long history and principles. They definitely strayed and hopefully will have a countermeasure to get back on course.

What I find interesting are the articles and blogs about lean coming from this. Edward Niedermeyer...

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Lean and the Laws of Physics by Scott McDuffee

By Kristi in January 24th, 2010 | 0 Comments

Part III of Scott McDuffee’s Lean series

According to Newton’s Law of Inertia, a body in motion tends to stay in motion in a straight line; a body at rest tends to stay at rest (unless acted upon with energy). Likewise, companies/leaders tend to stay on their current paths relying on what previously enabled even...

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