Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Tough times are an opportunity to drive change and innovation. I’m not talking about panic-driven change, rather well though out process improvements and innovation. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. Same goes for the way you treat your customers and the community.

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Kaizen Leadership Committee Short-term 120

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s. Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. What had happened? What a progressive view that was back in the 80s.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I'd been asked to run an innovation workshop for Procter & Gamble's R&D group because of a book I had written. While I disagreed with some parts, this was a fascinating glimpse into P&G's innovation aspirations. I immediately grasped that P&G's innovation vocabulary was far more important to my effectiveness than my own.

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Innovation Workshop Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

During a painfully dull futures workshop Down Under, a simple word change helped transform a stagnant discussion. Offers" usefully blurred categorical and cultural distinctions between "product" and "service" innovation. Perfectly good words like "innovation," "quality" and "morale" get flensed of all useful and usable meaning.

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Ulrich Kaizen Innovation Competitive Advantage 9