Do We Need a Process for Innovation

This weeks Podcast guest is David Hamme. David enjoys helping leaders uncover opportunities, examine problems from new angles, and executing the plan to bring them to fruition. His goal is to make your life easier and supercharge your performance.  His recent book, Customer Focused Process Innovation: Linking Strategic Intent to Everyday Execution is compilation of Read More …

Philosophers Notes is Simple

Philosophers Notes is a really simple program. The program consists of 180 book summaries on 180 of the most popular books to ever be written and read, most of them focusing on ways to improve yourself and your life, written by the author Brian Johnson. Brian created PDFs and audio recordings of these PDFs for Read More …

Question Transformation

Roger Schank wrote a book, The Creative Attitude: Learning to Ask and Answer the Right Questions: a few years ago that still is one of the better books that I have found on asking the right questions. From an Amazon review, “He describes how we think unconsciously using scripts. It is when this script fails do Read More …

We have 60,000 Thoughts a Day, 80% Negative – How to Change

I had Silva Instructor, Majorie Dearmont on a past podcast and thought I would share a few of her thoughts while Mindvalley is offering a Black Friday deal. Over $1000 savings ends Friday night, at midnight.  Your last chance to grab this Black Friday deal Related Podcast and Transcription: The Silva Method Joe: Can you Read More …

Can Lean Help you Co-Exist with Regulatory Bodies?

I asked Jerry Rosenthal this question in last week’s podcast: A few years ago, Lean sort of butted heads with ISO and it was like we kept 2 separate books. Is that what happens with food safety and the USDA and FDA protocols or are you explaining that there is common ground because they have Read More …

Lean Mapping Consists of More Than 1 Tool

I found Steven Borris use of Lean Mapping quite different in his book Strategic Lean Mapping. One that included Big Picture Map, Process Mapping, Capacity Mapping, Value-Stream Mapping, and closing with how to use this information for better problem solving and decision making. The tools within the maps are quite common for a Lean Practitioner. Read More …