How did it all begin? Since we are getting ready to celebrate our 100th episode, let's look back at how this podcast started a little over two years ago. On the day the podcast launched, I was at a speaking engagement in Evansville, IN, where I live now, and will be for the 100th episode! In this episode, we are taking a trip down memory lane and sharing the podcast's first three episodes: Episode 1: Respect People vs. Deliver Results, Episode 2: Why is Lean so Hard, and Episode 3: Getting Lean to Stick. What You'll Learn in This Episode: Episode 1: Respect People vs. Deliver Results One of the overarching challenges ops leaders face, and why we need to challenge itHow to stop looking at things as a dichotomy and open the door to possibilities How to think and speak about the need to respect people and deliver resultsA practical example of using an AND approach- in leadership and in lifeEpisode 2: Why is Lean so hard? A mistake I made early in a Lean transformation, and how it made things more difficultWhy we can’t just focus our efforts on improving processesThe role beliefs play in creating powerful behaviors and systemsA model and practice you can follow to identify gaps that make it more difficult to consistently sustain and improve resultsEpisode 3: Getting Lean to Stick How we sometimes mis-diagnose what’s causing our execution problemsReal-life Lean leadership example of The Transformation Trinity model in actionBOLOs and how to overcome potential hurdles and more effectively apply the model to your workWhy Lean or operations systems and tools aren’t enough on their own to get Lean to stick Learn more and check out the full show notes at: http://processplusresults.com/podcast/099