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It’s been two years since the release of the print edition of Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn – and a year since the audiobook’s release! To celebrate this milestone,...
In early 2022, I was invited by Authority Magazine to contribute to an interview series called The Great Resignation & The Future Of Work. I was asked to share my...
How do you start creating learning organizations and leaders who are learners? If you’re a consultant or coach who works with organizations, how can you consider these best practices as...
As leaders, should we be solving all the problems all the time? What are our problems to own? When, instead, should we be coaching other people to solve problems? And...
What does it mean to be a Katalyst™? And how can you accelerate the rate of learning in your organization? In today’s post you can learn more about what “kata”...
The concept of fear and unfear is important when it comes to people-centered learning, and something we should all be thinking about in our organizations if we want to achieve...
The pandemic has changed everything. We all know that. We can all feel it. It’s forced us to change the way we engage with each other, how we lead and...
It’s hard to believe that it’s been two years since my last trip to Japan, and just over seven years since my family moved to Tokyo for a life-changing 18-month...
When you and your people do a debrief or “post-mortem” at the end of a project or initiative, what does it look like? Very often in debriefs, we stay at...
What does kindness mean? How can you become kinder this year? And, importantly, how can you become kinder while you increase your learning at the same time? These are just...
“Hoshin is an important tool to make sure that all the members in the organization can share the same goals and action plans to attain their own goals.” – Isao...
It’s never fun to make a mistake, but it’s all about how we respond to it, what we learn from it, and how we can help others learn from it...
Four weeks ago, a few days after we went into COVID-19 “shelter in place” here in Northern California, I looked around my house – that
Our world has changed forever. We’re all in this together. And we’ll all get through this together. The Japanese saying “Fall down seven times, get
It’s hard to believe that my latest trip back to Japan was already over a month and a half ago. A lot has changed in
Virtual collaboration — and adjusting plans — is the theme for this week! It’s amazing the collaboration – and creation – that can happen when
As a follow up to his number one best selling book The Coaching Habit – one of the top books that I recommend to clients
The topic of today’s post is reflection. My good friend and K2C2 coaching partner Karyn Ross released a new book this week titled I’ll Keep
There are some moments in life that are inflection or pivot points that forever shape the tapestry of your life. For me, moving to Japan
Gemba Academy just published the fourth podcast that I’ve had the pleasure of recording with Ron Pereira! GA Podcast #297: The Importance of Hansei and
How do you connect your actions with your purpose? To me, this is the essence of leading with intention. 7 Tips to Coach and Lead
There is a Japanese proverb: “Fall down 7 times, get up 8” (Nana korobi ya oki). While we are sure to face failure along the
A few weeks ago Karyn Ross and I sat down – virtually – with Ron Pereira of Gemba Academy to talk about how to build
How can you create an effective top down and bottom up connected management system? The practices of strategy deployment, Training Within Industry, and coaching at
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