Motivating Teams Quote

A newly formed team was having a discussion when a member spoke up and suggested that we may fail. 

My response: The only way this team will fail is if we do not learn from our mistakes along the way to being successful.

Please feel free to quote me on this, it worked wonderfully…

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!

Lean for the Office — Creating the Perfect Day

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

Video Sample

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

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

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.

Visual Management in an Office Environment

Hello everyone.  I wanted to share something cool that can be used to make a serial process into a parallel process, thereby reducing time needed to process information.   Please click on the link below:

Visual Heijunka

Lean tools used at home to develop teenagers of all things…

 

Visual Heijunka Board — Daily Chores for Bob’s Children

How this works — Rows corresponds to the child’s name and Columns are the day of the week.

Child flips card over to signify completion of chore, notice green smiley face.

At the end of the week, Child flips all cards back to instruction side, and rotate assignments (rows)

Mom is the ultimate keeper of the work standards…

Allowances are tied to the completion of work based on time for task based on

What Dad calculated minimum wage to be…