Creating a creative culture requires a change in thinking, a change in leadership skills, a slimmed down and enabled organization structure, a focus on knowledge sharing, and programs to bring new ideas and thinking from other than internal sources.

1.  Robert Baird
President
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Creating a Creative Culture
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2. “We cannot solve our problems
with the same thinking we
used when we created them” -
Albert Einstein
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“Put everybody in the
company to work to accomplish
the transformation. The
transformation is
everybody's job” –
W. Edwards Deming

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“The Toyota style is not to create results by
working hard. It is a system that says there is no
limit to people’s creativity. People
don’t go to Toyota to work they go there to
think” - Taiichi Ohno

5. “Quality means doing it right
when no one is looking” - Henry Ford
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6. The Forefathers of up to 65 years ago have
identified what needs to be done
but we continue to ignore?
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7. Transformational Leadership
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8. Organization Structure for
Creativity
Leadership
Team
Self-directed
Team
Self-directed
Team
Self-directed
Team
Process
Experts
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9. Preventative Culture
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10. Knowledge Sharing
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11. Stolen Idea Program
Re-learning
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Stolen Idea Source – OutsideCompanyA
Stolen Idea – Mentors assigned during employee orientation
Idea Category – Knowledge Sharing
Submitted by - Carol
Adopted

12. Contact Us
• Lean Teams USA Lean Consulting
• www.leanteamsusa.com
• Lean Teams USA +1 215 353 0696
• @Robertbaird10
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