Want to Practice Lean? Try Gemba Academy

The Gemba Academy provides high quality online and DVD-based lean manufacturing training for individuals and groups. Ron Pereira, co-founder and partner, was my guest has more than 15 years experience in various manufacturing, supply chain, and senior leadership roles. Ron has held the titles of process engineer, engineering manager, master black belt, and director of manufacturing Read More …

The 3 Legs of an Agile Business Practice

An Agile Business must have three pillars to stand on Process Agility, Technical Agility, and Personal Agility, says Patrick Waara of ResponseAgility. Patrick was the first and only Software Design for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Xerox Corporation before launching ResponseAgility. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, certified ScrumMaster, Read More …

The Practice of Personal Agility

Patrick Waara was the first and only Software Design for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Xerox Corporation before launching ResponseAgility.  Patrick has more than 30 years of experience in software and IT, including software development, web development, systems engineering, project management, networks, and IT infrastructure. He is my guest in my next podcast Read More …

Improve Listening thru the Practice of Empathy

Leon Berg is a founding member of the Ojai Foundation, an educational sanctuary in the Upper Ojai Valley of Southern California. He is a Senior Trainer of the Ojai Foundation’s Center for Council Practice, and has been facilitating Council groups in the U.S. and abroad for over 20 years. In 2001, he went to Israel Read More …

Do you practice Professional Hypocrisy?

I realize there is snake-oil in every profession, and I have more than likely contributed a little along the way. However, seldom do I get irritated by anything more than someone who bestows the virtues of a methodology and fails to use that methodology in their own business. Recently, I interviewed Dominica DeGrandis, who teaches Read More …

Best Practice for Self Coaching

A special treat for me was to have Howard Guttman on my podcast. Howard is the principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS), a Mount Arlington, NJ-based management consulting firm founded in 1989 and specializing in executive coaching; building horizontal, high-performance teams; strategic and organizational alignment; and management development training (www.guttmandev.com). GDS has been ranked Read More …