Category: Learning

  • Coach’s Corner: How to Design a Knowledge-Sharing System

    Coach’s Corner: How to Design a Knowledge-Sharing System

    Designing knowledge-sharing practices that will allow people to get the necessary knowledge at the right time ensures that your team reuses the knowledge your organization has already created. Critically, deploying such a system frees team members to focus their time and energy toward creating new organizational knowledge. Continuously reusing and creating new organizational knowledge sets the foundation to develop new innovative products providing a competitive advantage consistently.  

  • Why it’s Better to Focus on Value, Not Waste

    Why it’s Better to Focus on Value, Not Waste

    Many organizations primarily focus their lean efforts on eliminating waste. While nobody wants waste in their value stream, it would be better to focus on increasing value. Emphasizing value creation reduces the risk that you will unintentionally remove value-creating activities while searching for waste. Emphasizing value creation also ensures that you deliver more value through…

  • Creating the Conditions for Optimal Learning in the Pursuit of Mastery: Lessons from Hiking

    Creating the Conditions for Optimal Learning in the Pursuit of Mastery: Lessons from Hiking

    Enabling people to develop their skills and capabilities is essential for high performance in organizations. In the short and long term, it can enable people to perform their best through their pursuit of Mastery…. To optimize learning and growth in the pursuit of Mastery, we need to create the conditions for people to be stretched…

  • Leading with Respect by Enabling People to Grow and Be Personally Satisfied with Better Performance Through Lean Thinking

    Leading with Respect by Enabling People to Grow and Be Personally Satisfied with Better Performance Through Lean Thinking

    Lean is a system that develops people while doing and improving the work. Continuous improvement efforts enable people to be creative while they are growing and developing. Lean product and process development it is a system designed to make creative people more productive while effectively working together. People and products are simultaneously developed with people…