In Lean and in Life, start with a work standard
Yesterday, I attended a short webinar by Lean Frontiers and the TWI Institute entitled “An Introduction to Standardized Work and the 5 Levels“. This webinar is free so if you’re […]
Reflections and Humility – Why I share the ups and downs of my self improvement journey so candidly
This morning I received an unexpected but pleasant surprise. A reader who had just come across my work through an online magazine I write for contacted me out of the blue. […]
New Habits, Fatigue and Perspective
So this is Day 5 of my 21 Day Exercise Plan. It was also my fifth day back at work after a three week holiday and boy am I tired! […]
The 21 Day Exercise Plan – Time to Form Some New Habits
The first step in the Year of Transformation is to get into some serious shape. Now I don’t mean reasonably active, not too shabby kind of shape. I mean, fantastic, […]
100 Days Sugar Free and the Year of Transformation
If someone had told me a year ago that I would celebrate the holidays without indulging in a single sugary treat I would never have believed them. I mean, my […]
Lean Leadership: How To Loosen The Reins Without Losing Your Edge – for BossBabe.com
I’ve spent some of my time this holidays thinking about the benefits of the lean leadership style over traditional management, especially as it applies to entrepreneurs. You can read all […]
Got Staff? – for BossBabe.com
When starting out in business there are a few veteren secrets to managing your new and growing team. You can read about it here in my new article for BossBabe.com
Lean Leadership – Start with you
In the last couple of weeks I have had the privilege of introducing a whole lot of new people to the ideas and benefits of lean thinking. Many are inspired […]
Intentional Living – What I’ve learned in 30 Days without Sugar
Thirty days went by so fast, I feel like it was all too easy. But it actually wasn’t that easy. It just feels that way now I’m over the worst […]
Intentional Living – The Sugar Free Experiment
It’s no secret that I love sugar in all it’s forms. I have posted many times about my long term and tempestuous relationship with cookies. Sugar is my substitute and […]
Intentional Living – When more Grit is what you need
When I was younger I had more of everything you need to face a challenge. More energy, more time and more idealism. Nothing was insurmountable and everything was an exciting […]
Twelve Chairs Lighter – for Minimalism Life
Ages ago, I submitted one of my early blog posts to Minimalism Life in the hopes that they would publish it. Minimalism Life is a collaborative project between The Minimalists, Minimalissimo, and 5 […]
Tips for Entrepreneurs – How to transition from a start-up to a serious business – For BossBabe.com
'One of the big mistakes I see with entrepreneurs is that they let their start-up grow organically...'
Leadership Tips – Keeping Angst at Bay with Pragmatism
You must have an alignment of strategy with the person ultimately making the decisions.
Intentional Living – Exciting challenges make boredom bearable
So, despite whinging about boring super slow progress in my previous post, I am still pretty motivated about what I am trying to achieve in the long term. If you’ve […]
Intentional Living – Progress is really boring
Progress is so boring. Almost three weeks into my latest focus on intentional living I am steadily pushing the flywheel, one microscopic movement at a time. It’s agonisingly slow, not […]
Lean Leadership – With Lean, the Piggy Bank will get full even if you never measure your financials
Recently, I was helping my husband with a change management assignment he was working on. He was interviewing me about improvements in the company I work for, Escea. One of […]
