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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

LNT has become the gold standard for organizations who operate in America’s backcountry environments. Business, particularly manufacturing has embraced the Japanese concepts of Muda and Kaizen , which have been widely adapted across industries as Lean. LNT asks that travelers respect not only the place, but the experience as well.

Kaizen 365
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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English. Aspiring to a global career.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. But this only compounded the chaos.