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 […]
Personal Flywheel Series – Two actions for moving forwards when you’ve been crushed by your own Flywheel
Earlier in the year I started working on my personal Flywheel journey. You can read about it here. Since then I’ve had a number of set-backs both in health and […]
Lean Leadership – Managing the Impact of Change through Respect for People
Just recently, I taught a class about ‘Managing the Impact of Change.’ As I was preparing for and delivering the class, I started to think about how deeply the ‘Respect […]
Do you run your life like you run your business? – For BossBabe.com
I’m a big fan of strategic life planning and it’s certainly helped me work through some tough times and to achieve some audacious goals. I’ve now written an article on […]
Lean Leadership – Facing the Challenges of a ‘Culture of Stopping’
A culture of stopping is where each day, everyone in the company comes together to assess the previous days performance, to focus on an improve any issues experienced, to carry out housekeeping and improvement activities and to learn and grow.
Start Today with Lean – Free e-book
Just a few weeks ago I was having a conversation with the CEO of the company where I work (Escea) as Head of Operations and ‘Lean Coach’. Two nights before […]
Productive paranoia and a culture of discipline. Is this the secret to my future triumph over cookies?
Recently, I wrote a post about focusing on discipline when motivation is low. Driving to work this morning, still struggling with motivation, I thought back to another post and experiment […]
Moving forwards when motivation has gone the way of the Dodo
If I’d known that maintaining a healthy, intentional lifestyle would be so hard I probably would never have started. Fortunately, what I do know is that despite the frustration, suffering […]
Learn to see your people with Lean – Three ways to help make them more visible
Do you have a great team of people working with you? Are they constantly striving to improve their processes and coming up with great ideas and improvements? Do they know […]
Lean Minimalist – New Site Layout and Lots of Content
We’ve been working hard on arranging all the content on the Lean Minimalist site in a more user friendly way over the last few months and now have a much […]
Nine steps to financial freedom – for BossBabe.com
Recently I have had the privilege of writing a post for BossBabe. The article is about my personal journey to financial freedom through Minimalism. You can check it out here. […]
What is Lean and why I am so obsessed with it?
If you’ve clicked on this post, it’s likely that you’ve not heard a lot about this thing called ‘Lean’. Lean is the nickname for the operational improvement system used by […]
What would the best version of my self do?
I just saw a re-tweet that had originated with The Minimalists that made me do a double take and a re-think. ‘What would the best version of myself do?” Now […]
Four dynamite steps for lighting a fire under your improvement program
What do leaders need when they are starting out in improvement? They need some strong tips to help them understand what they are trying to achieve and some tools to get started with. I’m a big believer in giving people simple, straightforward options when it comes to lean and starting an improvement program is no different.
Day 38 – It always comes back to Cookies
A friend asked me today how things were going since I finished my thirty days of healthy focused living and I had to answer truthfully. It’s been really hard. Thirty […]
Intentional Living – How my 30 day challenge has transformed my perspective…and my waistline
Tomorrow, my thirty day healthy living challenge is over. For thirty days straight I will have eaten the right foods, exercised every day, gone to bed at the right time, […]
