Does Lean solve some problems for ROWE

David Kasprzak, of the popular blog, My Flexible Pencil discussed ROWE in the Business901 podcast this week. ROWE is a concept developed by Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler, co-authors of the book, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution. ROWE stands for  Results-Only Work Environment. It is a revolutionary new way Read More …

An Appreciative Look at the World

Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism — that we’ll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down.” Progress over the past 100 years: Average human life span Read More …

ROWE: Results-Only Work Environment

ROWE stands for  Results-Only Work Environment. It is a revolutionary new way of working that gives employees more responsibility and accountability for their work and the way they do it.  ROWE is the core of the CultureRx philosophy. ROWE is all about results. It’s all you need to increase productivity, engagement, employee retention — AND Read More …

The Role of Empathy in Design

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making. Seung Chan Lim, nicknamed Slim discusses his journey and finally his project, Realizing Empathy. Through this project Slim hopes to share ideas, tools, and other ways to facilitate a meaningful, sustainable, and constructive conversations between and among diverse perspectives whether Read More …

Blending Appreciative Inquiry and Continuous Improvement

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, Is Appreciative Inquiry the next step for Continuous Improvement?. Ankit Patel, principal partner with The Lean Way Consulting firm while doing some work with the Cleveland Clinic, discovered Appreciative Inquiry and saw an opportunity to blend it with his work in Continuous Improvement. An excerpt of the Read More …

Framing the Act of Innovation, as an Act of Empathizing

In my Continuous Improvement journey into the Sales and Marketing field, I have taken Service Design as one of the leading concepts. One of the areas that is most evident in Service Design and Design Thinking is the aspect of Empathy.  Seung Chan Lim, nicknamed SLIM has engrossed himself into a special project that I Read More …