Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Peter Drucker’s famous pronouncement that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is given deeper meaning in a Rex Miller keynote address
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Anger at Work: Going 90 in a School Zone?
Adapted from a Fast Company article by Stephanie Vozza Nearly everyone gets angry at work now and then. It’s a
Read moreBig Room approach = Big Results
By Tammy McConaughy, Global Director, Lean DeliveryCRB Group Motivate teams to collaborate and tackle challenges before they become issues for
Read moreCreating a Psychologically Safe Team Environment
By Laura Delizonna in the Harvard Business Review “There’s no team without trust,” says Paul Santagata, Head of Industry at
Read moreDeep discussion: construction industry structural problems and how to solve them
By Howard Ashcraft summarized by Dan Fauchier Deep thinking based on research does NOT have to be DRY. Our job
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Hire Our Heroes
Hiring Our Heroes: Military Vets Could Be the Answer to Your Construction Staffing Challenges In celebrating Veterans Day and our
Read moreLean as a Lifestyle?
How are your efforts to continuously improve going? Did something like: “Continuous Improvement? Who has time for that? Who wants
Read moreThe SUM of our lives.
“The average life spends two years of boredom, 6 months of watching commercials, 67 days of heartbreak, and 14 minutes
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How to Delegate with Confidence
Leaders quickly learn we can’t do everything ourselves. We need the resources and brainpower of our teammates and staff. But
Read moreHow to Remain Calm in our Tornado-World
Lean practitioners, especially Lean leaders, live in a frantic tornado-world of design-construction-distraction. In our best moments we remain calm. And
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