Over the past two weeks, several reasons have come up about why it’s good and necessary to talk to the workers on the shop floor. There's the daily walkthrough, or Gemba if you like
A few weeks ago, I met a really insightful story. A young entrepreneur was complaining. He had started a family business with his father, later grew it on his own, and now it had outgrown him
Oh yes, we are happy today. For a very small and perhaps even funny reason 😊 But let’s start from the beginning
About twenty years ago, I asked the neighbor girl about her plans, and with sparkling eyes, she told me she wanted to be a DJ. Her school grades weren't impressive, she wasn't particularly talented or diligent, so I wondered what would become of this child when faced with reality
I have been thinking about this topic for more than a decade now, always referred to under the working title "Three Deaths," based on Lev Tolstoy's collection of short stories, "Three Deaths"
When I took over the management of the company, the beginning was very tough, working six days a week, with very long hours. After a while, this started to decrease, but there was still room for improvements, like the hopeless and endless meetings
Many years ago, I participated in a leadership development camp in Scotland. I was very young and had no leadership experience at all, and received this opportunity to test, how I could meet the requirements. We were from many different countries, and we spent a week with solving different tricky tasks
I don't remember exactly how the question sounded during the discussion of a possible interim task, but that was the gist of it, and I think it can be one of the biggest dilemmas when someone starts thinking about involving an interim specialist.
"You see, what you say is good, I didn't even think about that, that it's not enough to develop myself, see things, and move forward, but I also have to pull them along
From the beginning, my desire, if you like my vision, was that I would like to work in a calm and stable manner, if possible, not to do firefighting daily, but to focus on essential tasks. As a leader
by