Rex Miller’s Post

Our work-soil is no longer producing. The effect has exposed the cause. The soil is incapable of naturally producing. We've stripped the essential nutrients, and created too many dependecies. The fertilizer doesn't work. As a result, the process has been exposed for what it is: ❌ 75% of people say that work is the number one source of high stress. ❌ Heart-attacks increase on Mondays. ❌ 20% of people die BECAUSE of work (Karoshi). 👆🏼 Chronic Disease is up (due to unhealth coping). This work-system was designed of, for, and by us. We have to recognize the bad habits, quit them, and irradicate the invasive species. There's hope: 🌱 Regenerative design returns the nutrients to the soil. 🌱 New tech enables us to 'see' and 'understand' things we couldn't before. 🌱 Transitional investment sews the seeds for future crops. 🌱 Innovation / Creativity fuels hope and allows our voices to be heard. 🌱 Sustaining - the verb - commits us to foundational principles. There are no thriving organizations without a nucleus of amazing humans, and you can't finish a farm. Rex Miller - thank you so much for spending your time with me on Earth Day! I will release the full version at The Edge Report - From Bricks to Clicks as soon as we get it spiffed up! In the spirit of continuous improvement, I officially started The Edge Report on Spotify. One step at a time. Link in the comments if that's where you prefer to ingest your pods....👇🏼👇🏼

If you have been practicing #leanconstruction for more than 5 years now, you should spend your time looking at the lean principles. Focusing exclusively on the tools or even methods will yield limited results. But tools are easy to sell which is why you will notice a large portion of the market selling tools rather than teaching principles and philosophies. As you become more advanced, an investigation into the lean principles will allow you to improve the methods and tools that you use. All of this must be in alignment with the lean philosophies. And it is important to clearly separate between the philosophies, principles, methods, and tools. Otherwise lean design and construction becomes too confusing like alphabet soup. People need clear understanding in order to communicate, work together, and make progress.

I asked several teams a question using Rex Miller's boat analogy: Employees in which part of the boat cost the company the most time and effort? Below are some popular responses. The bottom line is that companies must start realizing their people are their biggest investment. Don't let the ones in the back of the boat demand the most time and effort. Instead, invest in the team members in the front of the boat so that you don't have to look for replacements when they burn out. #LeadershipInsights #EmployeeEngagement #WorkforceOptimization

How to dramatically improve business decision making... The After-Action Review (4 questions): A simple, powerful framework used by the military and leading corporations to make continuous improvements by reflecting on each completed action and distilling the relevant insights to inform future actions. The After-Action Review is four key questions: 1. What did we intend to accomplish? 2. What did we accomplish relative to our intention? 3. Why did it happen this way? 4. What will we do to adapt and refine for an improved outcome? It is typically conducted after a major project or action to assess the performance of an individual or team and make adjustments necessary in advance of the next one. While managers and employees can certainly benefit from engaging in a formal AAR in a professional setting, I find the AAR to be a useful template for informal, on-the-fly process improvements. A few examples: After a difficult conversation with a partner or friend. Why didn't that go as I intended? What changes can I make next time? After a race or competition. Why didn't that go as well as I had hoped? What changes can I make to my training plan next time? After a meeting with a new mentor. Why didn't that prove as fruitful as I hoped? What changes can I make next time? I like the framework because it puts an emphasis on my actions—the things I can control—rather than wasting energy worrying about that external factors that I cannot. I typically just run through the questions in my head, but you can write them down if you'd like. Give it a shot coming out of your next project or personal event and let me know what you think. Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more in future! P.S. You can get my free Quarterly Review template and join 750,000+ others who read my writing weekly here: https://lnkd.in/e-ba4pfi

Portsmouth Marine Terminal (PMT) OSW Staging Port construction update. April 22, 2024: A deliberate decision to form and build the PMT Construction Team early (via Rex Miller and #CliftonStrengths) continues to pay dividends with excellent collaboration and communication across all project partner teams. On Friday 4/19, we conducted our 3rd and final “Owners Walk” to track progress on Milestone #2, a 660’+ long, heavy lift Delivery Beth, and to ensure effective communication and coordination amongst all project teammates including reps from Dominion Energy, Skanska, Virginia International Terminals, Inc. Jacobs, Sarens, and The Port of Virginia. Our teams had committed months ago to strive to avoid any delays due to construction to incoming OSW Vessels bringing critical #CVOW components, if at all possible. All of our collective efforts paid off as the Delivery Berth is now ready to receive #CVOW cargo and Skanska achieved substantial completion on 4/19 - absolutely incredible effort! One of the Skanska project engineers termed it “the tightest schedule of her career to date!” The M/V Charlie arrived to the Delivery Berth today 4/22 at approximately 1200 hours, and cargo operations are underway!!! OSW is happening now in #Virginia. #Trust #Teamwork #OSW #collaboration #CVOW #OnTimeOnBudget Rex Miller Kevin Odenthal, P.E. Jeff Fisher Brent Hunt, P.E. Thomas Fulton Samuel R. David Braziel, Sigi Huerta Meredith Barrineau

GCUC SLC part one. Stay tuned for part two. Thank you to everyone that made it such a success. Liz Elam Zach Day Faye Stutts Cat Johnson Kevin Whelan DeShawn Brown Clark Rinehart Carlito Smith John Herring Giovanni Palavicini Meagan Schoenrock Slavin Jamie Russo Alex West Steinman Bethany Iverson McKenna Mendiola Mara Hauser Sofia Stolberg Peter Chee Tim Hasse Alora Daunt

After failing to sell itself to Elevance Health, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of La. sent a memo to its 3k employees informing them that the organization needs to become more efficient, engaged and diverse, and will need "all hands on deck." Therefore, employees will have to return to office full-time. Except for workers categorized as flexible; they'll be allowed to work remote for 1-2 days a week. Every organization is different, but perhaps Blue Cross leadership might more fully consider whether the benefits of a more flexibly-hybrid policy -- “Work wherever, whenever– just deliver” -- could better align with their stated goals. #hybrid #flexibleworking #WFA