Many of you went through your year-end evaluation recently. How did it go? Did you crush it? Or did you feel your evaluation was off the mark—or worse, discover that you didn’t achieve what you set out to at the beginning of the year? No matter where you are in your performance year, it’s time… Read More »VIDEO: Crush Your Performance Evaluation The post VIDEO: Crush Your Performance Evaluation appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

  I want to wish a warm holiday season to all my readers and friends. I know—2020 was a tough year. Most of the bad stuff was completely out of our control, but that was small comfort in a disorienting and frustrating time. Still, it just highlights the importance of working within our circle of… Read More »A Holiday Message from LeanBP The post A Holiday Message from LeanBP appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

  So—is it a 9 or is it a 6? Depends on who’s looking at the problem. You’ve probably seen memes similar to this that call out how we can become entrenched in our different perspectives. But some read this picture to mean no one is wrong. They even go so far as to say,… Read More »The Worst Waste of All The post The Worst Waste of All appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

Lean, at its heart, is about finding the root causes of problems that prevent you from achieving your goals. Often, what stands in the way of identifying those causes is a lack of discipline. You need a mindset of relentless curiosity and a determination not to settle for easy answers. This brings us to the… Read More »Develop a “Why?” Mindset The post Develop a “Why?” Mindset appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

Does that sound like an impossible promise? If you’re trying to achieve big goals at work, it’s hard enough to be right half the time, let alone never be wrong—that would be a miracle. Unless. . . . What if your outlook were less about being right, or being the boss, and more about advancing… Read More »Never Be Wrong Again The post Never Be Wrong Again appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

Ever go through your closet or toolbox and find something useful you forgot you had—and wound up being glad you did? I suggest you rummage back through your business toolbox and pull out your SWOT analysis template. In my experience, most people have learned or at least heard about SWOT in school, but very few… Read More »SWOT: Rediscover a Classic The post SWOT: Rediscover a Classic appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been providing you steps to stay productive and focused in work and in life. If you completed your mind map last week, you might be overwhelmed with the number of tasks you need to do. Before you start any of them, prioritize! First consider your mission—your blue line. Work the most important… Read More »Whip Out the WIP Board The post Whip Out the WIP Board appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

Any Harry Potter fans out there? If so, you’re familiar with the idea of a pensieve. The wizard Albus Dumbledore uses the pensieve—a large, shallow dish, like a birdbath—to store and sort memories and ideas. Anytime he wants to retrieve a thought or relive a memory, he takes his wand and transfers that thought into… Read More »How to Make a Mind Map The post How to Make a Mind Map appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

The COVID-19 crisis has upended business as usual, and it’s unclear what will happen when some or all of us return to work. Supply chains will be different. Work culture will be different. The very nature of how we do business may very well change. “When a paradigm shifts, everyone goes back to zero.”—Joel Barker,… Read More »Going Back to the Blue Line The post Going Back to the Blue Line appeared first on LeanBP ..read more

Many of you went through your year-end evaluation recently. How did it go? Did you crush it? Or did you feel your evaluation was off the mark—or worse, discover that you didn’t achieve what you set out to at the beginning of the year? No matter where you are in your performance year, it’s time […] The post VIDEO: Crush Your Performance Evaluation appeared first on LeanBP ..read more