INNOVATION & CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Walking the Walk with a Radical CPA

broken chainGet real. Get up from your desk. Go for a ‘gemba’ walk.

By Tom Hood
The Radical CPA

I remember sending a video intro to Jody Padar’s first meeting of IC Opportunities where I read a quote from the February 2012 edition of Fast Company magazine in which the editor, Robert Safian, intro­duced the concept of “Generation Flux” and it reminded me of Jody and her tribe:

Tom Hood
Hood

“In our hyper-networked, mobile, social, global world, the rules and plans of yesterday are increasingly under pressure; the enterprises and individuals that will thrive will be those willing to adapt and iterate, in a disciplined, unsen­timental way… Generation Flux is a term that describes all of this — the chaotic business era that we have moved into — as well as the people who are poised to thrive in this environment.”

So what is a “gemba walk,” you might be thinking?