One of my deeper lean facilitation secrets: Storytelling

Some of you know that I will be hosting a round-table on Lean Transformation soon.  

• The question came to mind, how could I ask “High Professional Plus” colleagues to share their experiences even more effectively than they would without any hindrance from me? 
• Would my advice be; “Why don’t we show a few hundred power-point slides?”, or would my advice be more like this:

STORY POWER FOR TEAMS

By Paula Bartholome and Evelyn Clark

Enjoy!

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Lean for the Office — Creating the Perfect Day

So I found a demo video from one of my favorite authors — GBMP:

Video Sample

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Bogus Theories, Bad for Business WSJ

Wow, when I read this WSJ article it really made me very curious about radically different ways of thinking about management theories especially the revealing new information about the father of scientific management — Frederick W. Taylor.  

I had read Margaret Wheatley’s book earlier and thought about how Newtonian mechanistic thinking was flawed within our modern reality.  What really opened my eyes was what I read next:

• That lead me to Tim Ferris On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca, and I promptly purchased his book. 
• I had never heard of lifestyle design.  Totally cool. 
• Hope this will lead you to new ways of thinking. 

Bob

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Lean Primer Article

Hello lean thinkers.  I found this outstanding resource on the web and contacted the authors to get permission to share it with you.  This article is one of the best I have read recently, and I am using it broadly to dispel myths about lean. 

Hope you will enjoy it.  Bob

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Visual Management Pictures and Examples

So I was travelling and the hotel I stayed at used many visual methods that I thought could be of interest to the lean thinkers. This is a three minute video with 30 slides.

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