What is the Lean Self Quick Check?
Here is a short checklist: Find out if you apply the Lean Self principles: Define Value What are the deeper values hidden behind your more obvious goals? Which values are really your own? Which are...
View ArticleSix Tips for Self-Empowerment
Today you get another glimpse at the Lean Self Pocket Edition. Have a look at these six simple tips for self-empowermentClick To Tweet Empowerment has two roots – internal and external It can come from...
View ArticleCan You Blame Blamers for Blaming?
This question may sound silly, but it reveals a real problem. What can you do when confronted with blaming? How should you react when somebody else accuses you of being a blamer? No matter if at home...
View ArticleHope and Direction
This is a guest post by Michael Carey (@MLCarey321). It originally appeared on his own blog (click here for the source). Thank you to Michael that he allows to republish here. Make change come true:...
View Article5 Reasons to Quit Waiting for Your Dreams to Come True
Imagine the following dialogue: Person #1: “Since I am 17 I wanted to learn the Italian language.” Person #2: “You are 67, what happened to your dream in the last 50 years?” Person #1: “Well, somehow...
View ArticleThe Mythology Of Management Seems To Start in First Grade
Today I present a post by Mike Stoecklein. Thank you to Mike that he alows me to republish this here. I still remember some things from when I was in kindergarten. My teacher was Mrs. Sears. We took...
View ArticleApply for the Lean Beyond Award 2014
Do you apply Lean (or Agile) beyond business? Is your household following Lean (or Agile) principles? Do you blog about it? Then you can win the “Lean Beyond Award 2014.” This is what a winner of the...
View ArticleBetter Quit those Rat RACIS
Hopefully, you have not experienced situations like the following very often in your life (“Bob” is the son, genders in that example are arbitrary): Dad to mom: Bob has not done his homework well. Mom...
View ArticleAre You Getting Depressed by Lean?
When you browse through Lean Management pages on the internet, you may have seen it yourself: reports about small success rates and comments about misunderstood Lean leading to bad consequences. From...
View Article7 Simple Empowerment Hacks
I have been away from this blog for a while. One of the reasons was that I was in the final rounds of writing a book together with Shirly Ronen-Harel (author of “Agile Kids”): “The Coaching Booster –...
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