Author: Ed Hoffman

Leadership

Leadership in Crisis: Lessons from a Childhood Survivor
ByEd Hoffman July 23, 2020October 7, 2025

By Ed Hoffman | July 22, 2020

SOLUTION AREA: Leadership & Change Management

Now is a difficult time for almost all businesses. Some are shuttered and experiencing the worst economic trauma imaginable. For others, the demand for their products might be soaring, but the health and well-being of their employees seems almost impossible to ensure. Each of these situations have employees, managers, and executives in places that they could not have imagined just a few months ago.

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Leadership | Operational Excellence

The most dangerous phrase in today’s manufacturing—“We Leaned it out.”
ByEd Hoffman June 23, 2020October 7, 2025

By Ed Hoffman | June 19, 2020

SOLUTION AREA:Operational Excellence

As many of us already know, Lean is a term that depicts broad concepts within world class operations developed by Toyota following WWII. Over the past two decades, I’ve often heard leaders from different industries describe their successes by stating something along the lines of: We’ve Leaned out our factories. It’s a phrase that seems benign, yet it’s one of the most dangerous phrases a leader can use. Why? What’s wrong with this phrase?

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Change Management | Operational Excellence

Change Leadership: How to Be Effective
ByEd Hoffman May 11, 2020October 7, 2025

Within Competitive Business Solutions (CBS), we actively debate over the difference between “Change Leadership” and “Change Management”. This debate plays out in industry. In fact, I would go as far as to say that most executives practice Change Leadership but stop short of requiring or driving the necessary tactics of Change Management, thus leaving their…

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Operational Excellence

Why Do 70% of Lean Transformations Fail?
ByEd Hoffman July 15, 2019October 7, 2025

By Ed Hoffman | Jul 15, 2019

SOLUTION AREA: Program and Project Management

If failure is the best teacher, most leaders attempting Lean transformation have earned PhDs. Successful, sustainable change begins by identifying and prioritizing grass-roots issues that truly drive improvements across your organization.

Four core “must-do” principles are essential to assure long-term success. For executives who want to create a real-world competitive advantage for their businesses, these indispensable ingredients will help you leap barriers to create successful, sustainable turnarounds to Lean transformation.

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Author: Ed Hoffman

Leadership in Crisis: Lessons from a Childhood Survivor

The most dangerous phrase in today’s manufacturing—“We Leaned it out.”

Change Leadership: How to Be Effective

Why Do 70% of Lean Transformations Fail?

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