Episodes

  • Calculate your True Hourly Wage and Prepare to Get your Mind Blown 🤯

    Calculate your True Hourly Wage and Prepare to Get your Mind Blown 🤯
    Dec 23 2021
    Your True  Hourly Wage is not what you are paid but how much you get to keep and use. In this episode, I breakdown how to get to this important number. Be careful, though. This knowledge may lead to serious changes in your decision-making!
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    16 mins
  • Systems Beat Wishes (Robust Implementation Planning) – A3 Thinking Applied to Life

    Systems Beat Wishes (Robust Implementation Planning) – A3 Thinking Applied to Life
    Dec 16 2021
    Systems eat willpower for breakfast. In A3 problem solving, a robust implementation planning process ensures the required tasks are defined, but also the SPA (single point of accountability), a timeline, measurement, and checks/reviews. In this episode, we dive in to tools to build strong implementation plans to get from your current state to your desired …

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    19 mins
  • A Guide to Get from Current State to Ideal Future State – A3 Thinking Applied to Life

    A Guide to Get from Current State to Ideal Future State – A3 Thinking Applied to Life
    Dec 10 2021
    Once you’ve defined the vision of your ideal future state, it’s time to figure out how to get from your current state to that future state.  Learn how to seize that opportunity by identifying the key enablers that will move you forward by adapting the “5 Whys” approach from A3 problem-solving.
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    11 mins
  • Define your Ideal Future State for Vision and Clarity – A3 Thinking Applied to Life

    Define your Ideal Future State for Vision and Clarity – A3 Thinking Applied to Life
    Dec 2 2021
    Defining your ideal future state creates clarity and simplifies decision making. There is a powerful exchange between Alice (in Wonderland ) and the Cheshire Cat: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t …

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    12 mins
  • A3 Thinking in your Career or Life – Determine your Current State

    A3 Thinking in your Career or Life – Determine your Current State
    Nov 18 2021
    A3 Thinking is a fantastic tool in the Lean toolbox. It is also elegantly simple and extremely useful in making change in your career/life. The first step in the A3 process is to determine your Current State. It’s tough to get where you want to go without first understanding where you stand now. In this …

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    15 mins
  • Take a Gemba Walk – GO and SEE don’t Sit and Wish

    Take a Gemba Walk – GO and SEE don’t Sit and Wish
    Nov 11 2021
    Gemba – this is a phrase I learned from the Lean world. “Go to where the real process happens”. If you want to know how things work, you need to get up and go to the actual place where the work is done, then observe, ask questions and learn. Try a Gemba Walk for the …

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    13 mins
  • Routines Set You Free

    Routines Set You Free
    Mar 6 2021
    Routines are a powerful tool in keeping you focused and moving you forward. Learn how to use routines to set you free. Committing to a new routine might be the key to jumpstart your efforts.
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    13 mins
  • Building Resilience, Pandemic Edition

    Building Resilience, Pandemic Edition
    Feb 7 2021
    We’ve never been through this before. Build resilience to get through the “first times”.
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    14 mins