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  On this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Kathy Coffey Solberg, CEO of CommonUnity Consulting and author of the new book “Reweaving What Matters.” Kathy has spent 25 years helping leaders across business, government, and nonprofits see what is really happening before they try to fix

Org design is a big moment for a team or an entire organization, no matter how large or small the magnitude. It should be a lever that is pulled by a leader less frequently than it often is. Once it’s pulled, it should be done with more rigor, more creativity,

On this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Matt Zayko, Senior VP and Head of the Global Lean Office at GE HealthCare. Matt brings one of the broadest lean backgrounds in the field, and the conversation traces how that breadth shaped his thinking about what makes change

On this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Bob Rogers, Founder and Chairman of BRC Imagination Arts and author of the new book Deep Story: A Complete Guide to Creating Transformational Visitor Attractions. Bob has spent five decades building visitor experiences for some of the world’s best-known

Most of us break down problems by asking what is causing them. Fewer of us ask a second question that changes almost everything about the work: by when? A problem statement is a vector. It has a direction, the gap you need to close, and a magnitude, how far you

For eighty years, global trade ran on a simple premise: everyone followed the same rules so that everyone could predict. That system is eroding, not everywhere, but exactly where it matters most. The share of trade running on standard terms dropped from about 80% to 72% in just two years,

  Insights from Jamie is a low-frequency newsletter that comes straight to your inbox. To avoid missing our best content, sign up here:: jflinch.com/newsletter-sign-up/ Where Does Growth Hurt First? Growing is hard work, whether you’re an organization or a kid. For the parents out there, you’ve dealt with a child

“Hyundai’s Humanoid Robots, GM Layoffs, Jim Farley’s Ford Quality Turnaround, and Toyota Kaizen for Coffee Farmers” In Episode 9, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh recap the World Cup, declare a “dealer’s choice” coffee round, and wade into a very full news roundup of robots, layoffs, and quality turnarounds. Jamie, the

In this episode of People Solve Problems, Jamie Flinchbaugh steps up to the microphone without a guest to talk about a pattern he keeps seeing in organizations: leaders trying to solve big problems by pulling big levers. Whether the problem shows up first and the lever follows, or the lever

I was a recent participant on the executive panel for LPPDE, the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange, discussing challenges and strategies for effective transformation.  I will share more of my perspectives from this webinar, but here is a clip of me answering our initial question about the challenges in