Starting a Collaborative In Any Field

  If someone was looking at starting a collaborative in any field, Healthcare, Manufacturing, could  you give them a little of advice on where they might go or how they would start. -jd Dean Bliss:      I wasn’t part of the beginning of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, so I can talk about the Lean Consortium a Read More …

What is Peter Drucker’s Legacy?

The Business Development Director of the Drucker Institute, Peter Gondolfo, joins me next week on the podcast to discuss Peter Drucker and the future of the institute. I think you will be quite surprised at how Peter Drucker’s Legacy is evolving. An excerpt from the podcast: To give you a little bit of background about Read More …

How to Think Simple

Is there a way that I can get started and gear myself towards thinking that way and trying to simplify things? – jd Don Sull: Absolutely, I mean my advice would be to try it. I’ll just give you a concrete example. I’ve used simple rules many times in my life but I’ll give you Read More …

Are You Qualified to Drive the Boat?

Randy Nelson, author of The Second Decision, is a speaker, a coach, a Qualified Entrepreneur, and a former nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. He co-founded and later sold two market-leading, multimillion dollar companies–Orion International and NSTAR Global Services. Randy now runs Gold Dolphins LLC, a coaching and mentoring firm to help entrepreneurial leaders Read More …

How do you Introduce Job Instructions?

 I want to jump back to TWI and dig a little deeper. You had mentioned to me that Job Relations is really two programs instead of just one. What are they and how is Job Relations introduced in your thinking? – jd Mark Warren:      If you take the original Job Relations pocket card and they Read More …