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JumpStarting The Lean Thinking Culture In Your Company

JumpStarting The Lean Thinking Culture In Your Company

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...
The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals

The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals

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...
20 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Demonstrated the Perfect Way to Respond to an Insult | Inc. Magazine

20 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Demonstrated the Perfect Way to Respond to an Insult | Inc. Magazine

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...
Midland Cabinet Lets The Market Turn Workers Into “Businessmen” (Business People)

Midland Cabinet Lets The Market Turn Workers Into “Businessmen” (Business People)

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...

Ron Swanson On Multi-Tasking

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...

Listening Is…

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 25, 2016 | Leadership

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Learning to celebrate failure at a young age led to this billionaire's success | Business Insider

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...

Tom Peters on the Attributes of Great Leaders

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....

Thinking Begets Thinking

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...

A Short Story About How Being Curious On the Internet Has It’s Rewards

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...
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