Powerful Lean Quotes and Insights from 2013 Mid-Atlantic Lean Conference

PowerPoint for my presentation at:

• 2013 Mid-Atlantic Lean Conference
• November 5-6, 2013
• Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium Maryland
• Highlights on my personal lean2life experience
which began on December 24th 2012. Audio will
become available… eventually.
©2013 www.speakstrong.com

Too Much Good Stuff = Bad


The Teacher (Method)
Became the Obstacle


Unlikely Alliance


The Process is the Sensei.
All the rest are co-travelers.


Ask the Process What it Wants


Look First: Know Me
Before You Change Me


Stage 1: Begin with
the Whole in Mind


I Can’t Hit a Target I Can’t See


I Can’t Hit a Target I Can’t Feel


I Want to be Ahh-inspired


“Our Hymns Will Never
Make it to Heaven…
…Until We Clean Up the Mess in the Basement”


Stage 2: Go to the Gemba


What’s Bugging You?


What’s REALLY Bugging You?

Gridlock Hell


for

Grace


What Else is Bugging You?


Flip It All Forward, Pick One and
GO FORTH!


How’s That
Supposed to Happen?


Stage 3: Commit
Pulling the Plug


I’m Doing This for Me


Stop Starting and Start Finishing


Stage 4: Know Thyself First. Know
Me Before You Change Me


Loosen Second: Problems Might Solve
Themselves


Pick Tools that Fit Me,
Not The Other Way Around


Recognize That I Am
Missing Some Basics


Let Me Take Baby Steps
Baby Kata: Why won’t that baby share that toy?
• What is the target condition? I want that toy.
• What is the current condition? I don’t have that toy.
• What obstacles do you think are preventing you from
reaching the target? That baby is a poopy head.
• What is your next action? Throw a tantrum and shriek
loudly.
• When can we go and see what we have learned from
taking that action? I don’t wanna.

Honor the Couch and the Kata
When I try to use
the tool, what
happens is…

Kata:
1. A specific practice.
2. A repeated routine to
increase adaptiveness and skill.
3. A way of keeping things in
alignment or synchronization
with each other.

Ana-lysis: First step in untangling
Lysis=loosen

Align With My Nature


Help Me Find Fit By Trying


Bust My Denial Gracefully


“Don’t Make Me Look Under Every
Rock at Once”


Trust My Deeper “Whys”


Trust The Invisible
Inner Process


Stage 5: Let it Unfold


I Followed My Nose
It is foolish, they say, to do it this way
When it all can be done from a script.
It takes so damn long to sing your own song,
And albums are easy to rip.
They tell me to look through a best-selling book,
And to follow steps A, B and C.
They think it a waste to not copy and paste,
And there’s no need for learning to see.
It is foolish, they claim, to play your own game,
When games can be bought in a store.
Why make it so hard and mine my own yard?
Is my own gold so worth digging for?
It is foolish, I’m told, to let things unfold
They said I should follow a plan!
So the plan that I chose was to follow my nose
My nose knows to start where I am.


I Discovered My
Natural Timetable


I Observed Instead of Read


I Saw Where I
Went Unconscious


It Signaled Me to KTS


I Felt My Resistance


It Signaled Me to Remove Obstacles
That Caused Resistance


I Observed My Desire
to Shift Blame


It Signaled Me to Flip the Shame
Forward into Aspiration


I Made Painful Mistakes


It Signaled Me to Sort Better


I Noticed Productivity Declines


It Signaled Me to Take Creativity
Breaks


I Detected That
Sinking Feeling


It Signaled Me to Stop,
Drop and Re-choose.


I Noted When I Felt Pressured


It Signaled me to Create More


I Felt My Temptation
to Fit Something In


It Signaled Me to Stop Asking “Will it
Fit?” and Start Asking “Will it Flow?”


I Honored the Signals …
IMPERFEKTLY


And Often Found:
It gets darkest just before new light
dawns.


The Fog of Busy-ness Lifts: Yikes!
Who knew?!?


No Rose Garden:
Even 2-Second Improvements Can Be
Messy


Random Improvement Purgatory


L2L Becomes a Family Affair
• Shoulda wouldas
• Money mysteries
• Unsustainable living
situation
• Brother calamity
• Computer challenge
• Hearing loss
• Trust issues
• Isolation
• Undernourished
• Father complex remnants

Oh, Brother


Single Factor Experiments!?!


Listlessness


TMI (Too Many Improvements) 
Cognitive System Hell


The Push and Pull of Socks


The Inner Game of L2L
Isn’t Always Fun …
• Shame, doubt, judgment, fear, inadequate,
lost, frustrated, futile, hopeless, confused,
fragmented, in over my head, uncertain,
flawed, stupid, crazy, irrelevant, impatient,
restless, hopeless


Stage 7: Peaking Out From Under:
Inspirations


The Darker the Night

The Brighter
the Dawn

When the Fog of Busy-ness Lifts:
Unanticipated Resources!


Can’t Solve World Hunger?
At Least Leave Things Better Than
You Found Them


Every Pearl Began
as an Irritation


Sometimes the Shortest Distance
Between Two Points is a Labyrinth.


Opportunitynowhere
OpportunityNOWhere
The gold isn’t always where you
think it is


Land Mines Can
Protect Gold Mines


Freedom to Fail is
Freedom to Succeed


Respect the Power of a Straw


Never Waste a Good Crisis


Wield the Lamp
Before the Sword


Shop Your Own Closet


Seek Not and Ye Shall Find


Your “NOs” Put Fences
Around Your “Yeses”

NO

Every Story Has a Beginning, a
Middle and an End


Stage 8: Making it Mine


Know Thyselves

www.speakstrong.com/inventory

My Inner 5Ss
1. Sort
2. Straighten

3. Shine
4. Standardize

5. Sustain

1. Free up matter. Discern who I am. Commit
to a future direction. Get current and
clear out what is dead to me.
2. Become more systematic. Honor how
things work. Observe and align with
natural flow. See and honor likenesses
and patterns. Alchemize. Serve future me.
3. Respect what I have. Maintain. Sprinkle
fairy dust on my world.
4. Curb excessive creative impulses. Stop
reinventing the wheel. Simplify. Enjoy
order.
5. Protect what I’ve created and what I’ve
been given. Continuously improve. Build
on rather than depart from.

Flow and Pull in
My L2L Process
Flow:
• Being in a state of grace
• Effortlessness
• Ease
• Being in tune with the
Whole

Pull
• Motivated by vision and
aspiration
• Following my bliss
• Drawn into the perfect
next step for my Kata
Quest


My L2L Gemba

Spirit
Mind

Heart
Will


Systems Thinking as Alchemy


Every Surface is an Altar


Every Word is an Invocation


Every Improvement
is Homage


Every Deed Deserves a
Final Blessing


Go Ahead.
Pull the Plug!


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