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Small Batch: Hand-Picked Articles from the Global Lean Community (Vol. 8)

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Small Batch: Hand-Picked Articles from the Global Lean Community (Vol. 8)

By Lean Leaper

March 24, 2016

Our picks for the best high-impact learning stories and columns from Planet Lean.

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Our editor’s picks for the best recent articles from our sister publication, Planet Lean.

1. Learning How to Coach with Humility

Coaching people is the only way to truly develop their capabilities, but what does it take to become a good lean coach? You must learn to be humble, says Josh Howell. Read more.

2. A Chat with Drew Locher

The lean community may be used to seeing lean implemented on a large scale in massive companies, but lean is effective in companies of any size. Implementing it in such an environment just takes a tailored approach, executive coaching, and a few other tips and tricks shared by Drew Locher in this great interview with Roberto Priolo.

3. Why Dialogue, and Not Discussion, Supports Real Innovation

Dialogue. Discussion. Two words that you’ve probably used interchangeably throughout your life. But in the context of innovation and creativity, those two words mean very, very different things. Boaz Tamir weighs in with his thoughts on why dialogue is the term that truly matters, especially when you’re trying to unleash organizational creativity.

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