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How to Lean in To Empower Your Team

Tullio Siragusa

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. Empowerment is not about taking your hands off to let employees sink or swim, it is an active process that involves teaching and coaching team members to be adaptive, to self-serve, to make decisions and to make them right without needing instructions or rubber stamp approvals.

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Moving Lean Construction into the Digital Age: Last Planner Meets Collective Intelligence

Planview

Our clients in the construction business tell me that the industry enjoys flush times, once again. Many construction firms are family led. How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence.

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Moving Lean Construction into the Digital Age: Last Planner Meets Collective Intelligence

Planview

Our clients in the construction business tell me that the industry enjoys flush times, once again. Many construction firms are family led. How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The Proud Leader. Secret Worries.

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Why Accountability Is Important in Leadership

CMOE

Even staff members notice a serious gap: 91% express accountability as their employer’s top leadership-development need. Accountability in leadership is vital for the following reasons: Accountability encourages team members to stay rooted in honesty and integrity. Making mistakes is inevitable in the workplace.

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Customer, Culture, and Learning: Takeaways from the Lean Startup Conference

Moves the Needle

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

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Winning the explore:exploit game

Jeffrey Phillips

Much of the last 30 years of management thought has been consumed with improving exploitation skill - Six Sigma, Lean, Outsourcing and right-sizing are all efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the exploiting portion of your business. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives.