by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 24, 2019 | Leadership, Lean Thinking, Management, Productivity
1. Tell your company “Hey we are going to explore Lean Thinking as a way to improve or customer client experiences working with our company and how we get work done around here. And we are all going on this learning experience together. 2. To get your company going...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 7, 2017 | Leadership, Management, Systems
A good article from the Farnam Street blog showed up in my blog reader this morning about The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals. The bullet points in it are all right on the mark but a big one that sticks out for me right now is… Amateurs have a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 30, 2017 | Leadership, Management
It goes without saying that Steve Jobs was a terribly and tragically flawed human being but at the same time he was brilliant. His response here to insulting criticism is an example of his brilliance and Inc Magazine article author Justin Bariso’s analysis of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 19, 2017 | Employees, Leadership, Management
I was in an email conversation this afternoon with a colleague and I gave him an all too short and brief history of how I hung up my tool belt. What I didn’t mention at all was some of the stories of how I got to the point where I could hand off most of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2017 | Leadership, Lean Thinking, Quotes & Inspiration, The Little Lessons
“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” — Ron...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 25, 2016 | Leadership
View this post on Instagram #quote #inspire #listen #listening #why #quotetoinspire #love #relationships #coach #coaching #fulfillment #startwithwhy #leaderseatlast #simonsinek #togetherisbetter A post shared by Simon Says Inspire (@simonsaysinspire) on Sep 23, 2016...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 20, 2016 | Leadership, The Little Lessons
Learning to celebrate failure at a young age led to this billionaire’s success VIDEO: “Failure for me became not...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 20, 2016 | Leadership, Management
I’m a long time reader and follower of Tom Peters and I think listening to cassettes in my Sony Walkman of his books Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution and Liberation Management back in the early 90’s that first turned me on to using audiobooks....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 13, 2014 | Leadership, Lean Thinking, Productivity, Systems & Systems Thinking, The Little Lessons
A great Deming-ism I just stumbled across in my old notes from a Scott Sedam article How To Get Smart from the 7/11/2000 issue of Professional Builder: Deming lamented that our companies and our country were becoming so obsessed with job skills that we were turning...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 23, 2010 | Beyond Building & Remodeling, Leadership
Okay so earlier this evening maybe even this afternoon I read this blog post from a blog I subscribe to and semi-regularly read entitled: Marketing Value | The Business Renegade while it’s a great blog I like to read I didn’t find anything particularly...
