The Inner Game of Lean and the Improvement Kata

(An Unauthorized Lean2Life Adventure)

PowerPoint for my presentation at:

• 2013 Mid-Atlantic Lean Conference• November 5-6, 2013• Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium Maryland

• Highlights on my personal lean2life experience which began on December 24th 2012. Audio will become available… eventually.

Too Much Good Stuff = Bad

The Teacher (Method)Became the Obstacle

Unlikely Alliance

The Process is the Sensei. All the rest are co-travelers.

Ask the Process What it Wants

Look First: Know Me Before You Change Me

Stage 1: Begin with the Whole in Mind

I Can’t Hit a Target I Can’t See

I Can’t Hit a Target I Can’t Feel

I Want to be Ahh-inspired

“Our Hymns Will Never Make it to Heaven…

…Until We Clean Up the Mess in the Basement”

Stage 2: Go to the Gemba

What’s Bugging You?

What’s REALLY Bugging You?

Gridlock Hell

S P A C E for

What Else is Bugging You?

Flip It All Forward, Pick One and GO FORTH!

How’s That Supposed to Happen?

Stage 3: CommitPulling the Plug

I’m Doing This for Me

Stop Starting and Start Finishing

Stage 4: Know Thyself First. Know Me Before You Change Me

Loosen Second: Problems Might Solve Themselves

Pick Tools that Fit Me, Not The Other Way Around

Recognize That I Am Missing Some Basics

Let Me Take Baby Steps

Baby Kata: Why won’t that baby share that toy?

• What is the target condition? I want that toy.• What is the current condition? I don’t have that toy.• What obstacles do you think are preventing you from

reaching the target? That baby is a poopy head.• What is your next action? Throw a tantrum and shriek

loudly.• When can we go and see what we have learned from

taking that action? I don’t wanna.

Honor the Couch and the Kata

When I try to use the tool, what happens is…

Ana-lysis: First step in untanglingLysis=loosen

Kata: 1. A specific practice. 2. A repeated routine to increase adaptiveness and skill. 3. A way of keeping things in alignment or synchronization with each other.

Align With My Nature

Help Me Find Fit By Trying

Bust My Denial Gracefully

“Don’t Make Me Look Under Every Rock at Once”

Trust My Deeper “Whys”

Trust The Invisible Inner Process

Stage 5: Let it Unfold

I Followed My NoseIt is foolish, they say, to do it this wayWhen it all can be done from a script.It takes so damn long to sing your own song,And albums are easy to rip.They tell me to look through a best-selling book,And to follow steps A, B and C.They think it a waste to not copy and paste,And there’s no need for learning to see.It is foolish, they claim, to play your own game,When games can be bought in a store.Why make it so hard and mine my own yard?Is my own gold so worth digging for?It is foolish, I’m told, to let things unfoldThey said I should follow a plan!So the plan that I chose was to follow my noseMy nose knows to start where I am.

I Discovered My Natural Timetable

I Observed Instead of Read

I Saw Where I Went Unconscious

It Signaled Me to KTS

I Felt My Resistance

It Signaled Me to Remove Obstacles That Caused Resistance

I Observed My Desire to Shift Blame

It Signaled Me to Flip the Shame Forward into Aspiration

I Made Painful Mistakes

It Signaled Me to Sort Better

I Noticed Productivity Declines

It Signaled Me to Take Creativity Breaks

I Detected That Sinking Feeling

It Signaled Me to Stop, Drop and Re-choose.

I Noted When I Felt Pressured

It Signaled me to Create More

I Felt My Temptation to Fit Something In

It Signaled Me to Stop Asking “Will it Fit?” and Start Asking “Will it Flow?”

I Honored the Signals …IMPERFEKTLY

And Often Found: It gets darkest just before

new light dawns.

Stage 6: Embrace the dark nights

and enjoy the bright dawns

The Fog of Busy-ness Lifts: Yikes! Who knew?!?

No Rose Garden: Even 2-Second Improvements Can Be Messy

Random Improvement Purgatory

L2L Becomes a Family Affair

• Shoulda wouldas• Money mysteries• Unsustainable living

situation• Brother calamity• Computer challenge• Hearing loss• Trust issues• Isolation• Undernourished• Father complex remnants

Oh, Brother

Single Factor Experiments!?!

Listlessness

TMI (Too Many Improvements) Cognitive System Hell

The Push and Pull of Socks

The Inner Game of L2L Isn’t Always Fun …

• Shame, doubt, judgment, fear, inadequate, lost, frustrated, futile, hopeless, confused, fragmented, in over my head, uncertain, flawed, stupid, crazy, irrelevant, impatient, restless, hopeless

Stage 7: Peaking Out From Under: Inspirations

The Darker the Night

The Brighter the Dawn

When the Fog of Busy-ness Lifts: Unanticipated Resources!

Can’t Solve World Hunger?At Least Leave Things Better Than You Found Them

Every Pearl Began as an Irritation

Sometimes the Shortest Distance Between Two Points is a Labyrinth.

Opportunitynowhere

OpportunityNOWhere

The gold isn’t always where you think it is

Land Mines CanProtect Gold Mines

Freedom to Fail is Freedom to Succeed

Respect the Power of a Straw

Never Waste a Good Crisis

Wield the Lamp Before the Sword

Shop Your Own Closet

Seek Not and Ye Shall Find

Your “NOs” Put Fences Around Your “Yeses”

Every Story Has a Beginning, a Middle and an End

Once upon a time there was a need…

And THEN…

And they

lived happily

ever after

I’m Doing This for Me

Stage 8: Making it Mine

Know Thyselves

www.speakstrong.com/inventory

My Inner 5Ss

1. Sort

2. Straighten

3. Shine

4. Standardize

5. Sustain

1. Free up matter. Discern who I am. Commit to a future direction. Get current and clear out what is dead to me.

2. Become more systematic. Honor how things work. Observe and align with natural flow. See and honor likenesses and patterns. Alchemize. Serve future me.

3. Respect what I have. Maintain. Sprinkle fairy dust on my world.

4. Curb excessive creative impulses. Stop reinventing the wheel. Simplify. Enjoy order.

5. Protect what I’ve created and what I’ve been given. Continuously improve. Build on rather than depart from.

Flow and Pull in My L2L Process

Flow: • Being in a state of

grace• Effortlessness• Ease• Being in tune with

the Whole

Pull• Motivated by

vision and aspiration

• Following my bliss• Drawn into the

perfect next step for my Kata Quest

My L2L Gemba

Spirit

Systems Thinking as Alchemy

Every Surface is an Altar

Every Word is an Invocation

Every Improvement is Homage

Every Deed Deserves a Final Blessing

Enjoy Your Inner Game of Lean and the Improvement Kata

Go Ahead. Pull the Plug!

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