People Solve Problems
Insights on leadership, lean thinking, problem solving, and better decision-making — by Jamie Flinchbaugh
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Reorganize Less, Reorganize Better (opens the original)
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Matt Zayko, Head of Global Lean Office, GE HealthCare: Why Change Fails After It Works (opens the original)
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Bob Rogers, Chairman, BRC Imagination Arts: Why Your Message Is the Wrong Place to Start (opens the original)
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Same Problem, Different Clock: Why "By When" Changes Everything (opens the original)
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Most of us break down problems by asking what is causing them. Fewer of us ask a second question that changes almost everything about the work: by when? A problem statement is a vector. It has a direction, the gap you need to close, and a magnitude, how far you have to go. Add time to the magnitude and you get a very different problem. Closing a gap by the end of the quarter and closing the same gap over the next three years may share a title, but they don’t share a solution.In this video, I wal
A Short Course in Solo Consulting (opens the original)
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Everything here comes from questions people actually ask me. I co-founded a consulting firm, ran it for 15 years with offices on three continents and 300 clients, and now run a solo advisory practice. That means I have made most of these decisions at least twice, at scale and alone. The lessons below are the ones that matter most when it is just you.Two threads run through all of it. First, your practice is not about you. It is about what your client receives, decides, and does. Second, a solo p
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