None of the conference rooms were available, so the meeting was held in a maintenance closet: an 8-by-8-foot room with mops, brooms, and brushes, and the smell of detergent in the air. Ten men and ...

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A few years ago, leaders at the Gates Foundation reached out to see if I could help them improve their culture. They already had a strong culture of performance: They hired world-class scientists and ...

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Everybody knows that big corporations, by nature, maneuver like battleships. Held back by their own inertia and current business strategies, they cannot turn quickly when the competitive environment ...

I had the feeling,” said Pierre Wack, “of hunting in a pack of wolves, being the eyes of the pack, and sending signals back to the rest. Now if you see something serious, and the pack doesn’t notice ...

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However, lean’s many benefits extend well beyond the assembly line. And, as a new book argues, its qualitative approach to enterprise improvement has never been more relevant. What a Unicorn Knows, by ...

Imagine you asked two teams to tackle the same challenge, and the groups came back to you with entirely different proposals. Would you instinctively green-light the one that seemed more promising? Or ...

Since its founding in 1957, GreenShield has been a nonprofit, focused on responding to the evolving healthcare and insurance needs of Canadians, while pursuing its social mission of Better Health for ...