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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

Business, particularly manufacturing has embraced the Japanese concepts of Muda and Kaizen , which have been widely adapted across industries as Lean. Muda is waste and Kaizen is the process of reducing that waste made most famous by Toyota’s Production System.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English. These challenges differed depending on people’s backgrounds and location. Two groups had the steepest learning curve in particular. 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.

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