As a leader seeking to build a Continuous Improvement culture, your greatest power is hiring and firing. The math is simple: hire more Impruvers and remove more Worseners.

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In a conversation with my software engineering team this morning, I told them the following: "AI can now complete a month of software development work in 3 minutes. We need to adapt." All other things equal, CI pro with AI is 20 - 50 times more effective than the alternative.

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Four years ago, it was the pandemic

Two years ago it was inflation / recession

Today its Artifical Intelligence

The only constant is change. Is your organization being traumatized by it? or is it building the "FIT-ness" to win?

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Because of AI job application tools, recruiters are now being inundated with applicants.

Meeting minimum qualifications on a job posting is no longer enough to get an interview. Now you must meet preferred qualifications as well.

Take the time to tailor each resume submit to the job req's.

The number one skill that determines the longevity of a business is adaptability. Given the rapid tech, political, and other changes that we're experiencing, everyone is wishing for a little more adaptability right now.

What do you think?

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As John Legend once said, "We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go". Our leaders often don't know which way to go either. Still we trust them to leave us in a better place than where we started. Our job is to choose our leaders carefully.

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AI has changed the game for job hunting. Employers are using it to screen hordes of resumes and only letting exact matches through. It's no longer enough to blast the same resume to hundreds of jobs. You need to use AI to tailor a resume to the specific job now.

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Is Lean a misnomer? What companies, just like people, really need is to become Fit to achieve their unique goals. Lean-ness doesn't necessarily ensure survival; fit-ness does. It's not Leanest team that wins - its the team most fit to win.

What do you think?

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It's always a sad day when companies look to cut their Continuous Improvement resources when the company is struggling.

It's like cutting your gym membership because you've gotten too out of shape.

Perhaps the answer is in empowering the change agents.

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Great organizations are not built on quick fixes. They are built through the highly disciplined process of becoming FIT for success. Its starts with Focusing on what's most important to improve, Iterating toward the goal, and Tracking progress along the way.

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"A leader’s goal should transcend the urgency of the moment, but in working to overcome, the organization becomes more fit so that what is impossible today becomes easy tomorrow. In doing so, the quality of life for all stakeholders is raised to a higher plateau.”