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Executive Leadership

Jim Womack on Lean Tools As Tools for Creativity

By Lex Schroeder

November 29, 2012

In this video, LEI founder and senior advisor Jim Womack answers the question: "What challenge do you think the lean community is facing currently?" and talks about the connection between lean thinking and creativity.

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Lex Schroeder

About Lex Schroeder

Writer, developmental editor, and business strategist with a deep background in systems thinking. Strategic communications leader. She helps leading thinkers write articles/books and make manuscript deadlines, and helps teams/organizations capture what they know in the form of thought leadership pieces, narrative pieces, case studies, creative campaigns, strategic plans, annual reports, and more. Trained in lean thinking and practice and all about living systems. Experienced facilitator trained in the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, a way of practicing participatory leadership and working with collective intelligence. In 2017 and 2019, with Feminists at Work, she co-produced the Entrepreneurial Feminist Forum in Toronto. From time to time, she speaks on collective leadership and the future of work.

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