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Rich Data, Poor Data
We live in a world of big data, which gets used in countless ways. “Big data” refers to data that is so large, fast or complex that it’s difficult or impossible to process using traditional methods and gained momentum in the early 2000s. The way organizations manage...
Why We Need Critical Thinking Now
From its intellectual roots in the teaching, practice, and vision of Socrates 2,500 years ago, critical thinking is an essential part of life. Critical thinking is the ability to interpret, analyze, evaluate, explain, and find results in uncertain situations. It is...
4 Ways to Hold Yourself Truly Accountable While Working Remotely
It is no surprise that with a change in routine comes a shift in how we view ourselves. Humans, by nature, are creatures of habit. While that sentence has a cliched history, there are reasons that it became so. As our lives turned upside down with the pandemic and...
Lean to the Rescue
For many small and midsize organizations with a few hundred up to a few thousand employees, COVID-19 has jolted businesses in unforeseen ways. This pandemic has forced us into a deluge of change, from keeping people and customers safe, managing supply chain issues,...
Building Trust Within Your Remote Team
For the past several weeks, many of us began working from home (or WFH). For some of you, working in remote environments has plunged you into a realm of the unknown. However, for many, WFH has been the status quo for years. I began working from home full time in 2006...
How Getting Help from a Coach Boosts Results/Boost Results with a Coach
Have you trained continuous improvement (CI) practitioners (i.e., Green/Black Belts, Lean practitioners) to see limited success with improvement project execution? Or are your newly-trained CI practitioners struggling to move forward in their improvement projects?...
Lessons from Mister Keating
With the onset of streaming services for movies, there are a plethora of movie choices available to be watched at any time. As an Amazon Prime customer, our family occasionally enjoys watching an older movie or TV show in an attempt to share (or relive) pop culture...
Don’t Forget the Soft Skills
Soft skills can be viewed as more important than technical expertise. Some of these skills are tagged as communication, empathy, facilitation, negotiation, leadership, collaborations, time management, etc. While there is a nuanced balance that takes time to learn how...
Are You Working on the Right Projects?
If your organization is getting started with continuous improvement or has been on its journey for the past several years, a common success factor remains—valid project selection (see last month’s blog for more success factors and how to assess your progress). There...
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