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My Lean Action Plan ( Lap )

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Introduction: Your Lean Action Plan (LAP) It never ceases to amaze me, witnessing all of these Fortune 500, even Fortune 100 and Fortune 50 companies reach such incredible heights. I mean PEAK performances, all in the face of adversities and despite an intensely schizophrenic like, creative environment. Meetings, in particular, seem to always be the FIRST that the company has ever held. Not because they are inexperienced in holding meaningful conversations with likeminded individuals. Instead, these meetings all seem like the first, because they are completely lacking in any sense of direction. Honestly, I have felt as though they all file into a conference room, having no agenda, no workflow and no organization whatsoever. They are, for all intents and purposes, just various people, sitting in a conference room, making various contributions, in an almost random pattern, that typically only ends with setting up another meeting for the following week. A meeting that is going to be held in order to discuss what wasn’t accomplished in this weeks’ ‘Important’ meeting. Essentially, wasting time, payroll and intellectual energy, all for the purposes of ‘Having a Meeting’! Case in point: Shortly after I made the step into joining a large Ad agency, I was assigned to head the digital account for a major home improvement store. I will spare you the details, only to tell you that you know them. In fact, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to hear that you shopped there last

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