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The Five-Tier Leadership Model: What Modern Organizations Can Learn from the Catholic Church
Introduction: The Paradox of Organizational Complexity In our quest to build efficient organizations, we often fall into a common trap:...
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What is the Score?
Do All Your Frontline Teams Know, Analyze, and Strive to Improve the Prior Day’s Performance as Perceived by Their Customers? It might be...
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From Celebration to Transformation: Why Your Huddle Board Might Just Be Expensive Wallpaper
In many organizations striving for operational excellence, huddle boards have become a staple of visual management. They’re mounted in...
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What Is Your Huddle Board Really Telling You??
Didier's Question of the Day: "What Insights Does Your Huddle Board Provide About the Strength of Your Daily Management System and Its...
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What Message Needs to Move Up? Rethinking Tiered Management
Didier's Question of the Day: "What key message from today's tier meeting needs to be better elevated or clarified at the next level?"...
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Operational Improvements and Strategic Initiatives: Striking the Right Balance
𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰: 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗖 𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦 🎯 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: When...
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Leader Standard Work: Sustaining Improvement Through Leadership Discipline
🎯 Insight: In a Lean environment, even the hardest process improvements can quickly unravel if leadership behaviors remain unchanged. A...
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From Crumpled Chaos to Elegant Precision: The Art of Process Transformation
When I look at this image, I see the perfect metaphor for what I do with organizations. Too often, I encounter systems and processes that...
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Leader Support and Coaching: The Catalyst for Continuous Improvement
🎯 Insi ght: Leaders are the driving force behind a culture of continuous improvement. Their actions don’t just shape the work...
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Team Collaboration and Engagement: Unlocking Innovation Through Employee Ideas
🎯 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Innovation and continuous improvement thrive when employees are empowered to share and act on their ideas....
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WHERE IS PFEP IN YOUR OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM?
In a recent post, I discussed the bullwhip effect and how Every Part Every Interval (EPEI) can help mitigate its impact on extended...
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Strategic Alignment: Unlocking Sustainable Success
🎯 Insight: The Importance of Organizational Alignment Achieving sustainable results requires more than just setting ambitious goals—it...
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Mastering the Bullwhip Effect: A Lean Approach to Stability
🎯 Insight: Understanding the Bullwhip Effect Last week, I had the privilege of helping a manufacturing organization optimize its pull...
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Lean Principles: Timeless and Transformative
🎯 Insight: Lean Is More Relevant Than Ever Some believe that Lean principles are outdated or don’t apply to their industry. The...
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Fixing Work Systems Before They Break
🎯 Insight: The Pitfalls of Reactive Management In his book Outlive , Dr. Peter Attia highlights a major issue in healthcare—treating...
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Avoiding Strategic Deployment Pitfalls
🎯 Insight: The Best Plans Can Fail Without the Right Execution When using strategic deployment , even the most well-crafted plans can...
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Solving Problems at All Levels
🎯 Insight: Most Problems Are Contained, Not Solved Many organizations only contain problems instead of solving them to their root cause....
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Maximizing Success with Daily Huddles: A Key Practice for High-Reliability Organizations
🎯 Insight: Daily huddles are a key practice in high-reliability organizations (HROs), playing a critical role in driving operational...
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Unlocking Continuous Improvement with a Plan Versus Actual (PVA) Board: A Game-Changer for Team Performance
🎯 Insight: A "Plan Versus Actual" (PVA) board is an essential tool in visual management, offering real-time insights into how closely...
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Stop Chasing the Next Big Thing: Unlock Innovation with a Daily Improvement System
🎯 Insight: In today’s fast-paced world, organizations are often caught in a cycle of chasing the next big thing – the latest...
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