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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

On this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Renee Kaspar, Author and Workplace Strategist at Renee Kaspar Labs. A thirty-year veteran of human resources and the author of the forthcoming book HR Confidential, Renee has spent her career in the rooms where the most significant decisions about

tl;dr AI is neither savior nor threat. The differentiator is thoughtfulness: critical thinking, problem solving, and control over how the work gets done. The bulk of the business world is being split into two camps: pro-AI and anti-AI. I’m neither. I’m pro-thoughtfulness. AI is here, and we can’t stick our

On this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Brittany Irwin, Applications and AI Engineering Manager at NFI Industries. With an industrial engineering degree from the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and a career spanning large-scale third-party logistics and fast-moving B2B SaaS startups, Brittany offers a

Joan Tafoya joins Jamie Flinchbaugh on People Solve Problems for a conversation built around one deceptively simple question: how do you coach problem solving when the person in front of you is difficult to coach?  Joan, a former director at Meta, Intel, and Sandia National Laboratories with nearly 38 years

There are lots of ways to learn your way through the beginnings of lean capabilities, from books to courses, but at some point, you need to do most of your learning by doing. The Advanced Lean Study Group is an opportunity for groups of lean practitioners, whether full-time or not,