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Building a Lean Culture: Mindset and Action

β€œLean” thinking creates a willingness to try new things. We have taught 6S, which focuses on safely reorganizing and establishing ways to maintain our spaces. We have conducted Kaizen events, which are intensive efforts to quickly transform a place or process. As you engage in these practices, we hope it changes your way of looking […]

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Embracing Responsibility with Joy: A Key to Leadership Growth

Here’s another insight I learned from Rescue House pastor Matt Hudson in Mocksville, NC, at a leadership conference when he sharedΒ 7 Things a Boss Wants to Say to You: β€œI love it when you receive responsibility with joy.” Last week, I shared Matt’s idea that β€œresponsibility is a reward, not a right.” Using that logic, […]

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ADOPTING A GROWTH MINDSET

What is your attitude about growth? Do you believe you can always learn and develop? Or – do you think that, at some point, you are limited based on your intelligence or experience? It turns out that you can be right either way. Research shows that it’s reasonable to assume we have finite intellectual ability. […]

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INTENTIONAL IMPROVEMENT

If I had my druthers, all teammates would be working on some plan to get better at their jobs all the time. No exceptions. Here’s why. When you aren’t intentional about getting better, you will likely be drifting backward. Every day without addressing a plan to improve creates a gap further from your team’s best […]

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