What is the best way to learn a process? Practice on yourself! After three years of conversations and visits with each other in Japan, the U.S. and Europe, Mr. Isao Yoshino and I both had […]
Today Gemba Academy published a podcast that I recorded with Ron Pereira last week. Ron and I first started looking into recording a podcast together two years ago when I was living in Tokyo, but our […]
When I was back in Japan last month for a visit – my second visit since moving back to the U.S. in June 2016 – I spent the day with my friend and Toyota mentor, […]
Using A3 thinking to coach for personal development In previous posts, I’ve walked though the value of using A3 thinking to support personal improvement and how you can coach someone through the “left side” of […]
Have you ever wondered: “Does every problem require an A3?” I’ve been asked this question multiple times by different clients and readers of this blog over the past month and thought that you might have the […]
How should I start coaching using the personal A3 process? Many of you have reached out to me in the past two weeks since I published the first post in this series about using the personal […]
A3 thinking is well known in the Lean community as a process for solving organizational problems, but did you realize that it can be a powerful process for personal development and leadership coaching as well? […]
I just spent most of this week unloading boxes of our life from the sea container that just arrived form Japan and the storage unit of everything we didn’t take with us. Suffice to say, I now have […]
When I met with the President of a Tokyo metropolitan hospital a few weeks ago, he invited me to attend upcoming monthly Quality Committee held monthly. The next meeting was less than two weeks later, […]
As the end of the year is coming, it is time for reflection and planning your New Year’s resolutions. But what how likely will you achieve your resolutions without understanding of what you tried this year […]
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