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Executive Leadership

How GE is making things better through lean

By Lex Schroeder

April 9, 2013

Bill McDonogh, HR Lean Transformation Leader at GE Appliance tells us how GE is making things better through lean thinking and practice every day. 

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Bill McDonogh, HR Lean Transformation Leader at GE Appliance tells us how GE is making things better through lean thinking and practice every day.

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Lex Schroeder

About Lex Schroeder

Writer, developmental editor, and business strategist with a deep background in systems thinking. Strategic communications leader. She helps leading thinkers write articles/books and make manuscript deadlines, and helps teams/organizations capture what they know in the form of thought leadership pieces, narrative pieces, case studies, creative campaigns, strategic plans, annual reports, and more. Trained in lean thinking and practice and all about living systems. Experienced facilitator trained in the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, a way of practicing participatory leadership and working with collective intelligence. In 2017 and 2019, with Feminists at Work, she co-produced the Entrepreneurial Feminist Forum in Toronto. From time to time, she speaks on collective leadership and the future of work.

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