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What's New
October 16, 2020

Even in France, Lean can be implemented right – The Results were different (Part3)

Even in France, Lean can be implemented right Part 3 – The results were different (2:56) Meet Bianca Azzolin.  She’s French and she is very funny. In this three-part video series,…
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October 12, 2020

Even in France, Lean can be implemented right – What was different this time around? (Part2)

Even in France, Lean can be implemented right Part 2 – What was different this time around (2:50) Meet Bianca Azzolin.  She’s French and she is very funny. In this three-part…
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October 9, 2020

Even in France, Lean can be implemented right – The Challenges (Part1)

Even in France, Lean can be implemented right Part 1 – The challenges – Success not a likelihood (1:34) Uncertainty and a lack of trust, poor performance and low levels…
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September 22, 2020

Karsten Farms – Highlights over the years

Karsten Farms have been making tremendous progress over the past six years, integrating CDI Connect (the CDI Way), which they call My Farm, into how they run their organisation.  They…
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April 9, 2020

De Hoop Karsten Farms

De Hoop, one of Karsten Farming’s table-grape producing farms, shared with us how they have used CDI Connect to connect every single farm worker to the strategy of the organisation.…
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September 3, 2019

Implementation Lessons for Leadership

Change leaders will take heart from these simple, yet critical implementation lessons shared by ITG Volgograd’s Alibek and Diana, by now CDI celebrities. Unfortunately, not everything they share is really…
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August 27, 2019

Growing High Engagement and Ownership

Karsten Farms started introducing CDI Connect in 2015 into their 21 farms across South Africa. In this video, Dirkie Visser explains how they are doing it and what the impact…
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August 20, 2019

Seeing is Believing

This beautiful story of Misha, a production manager working in one of Imperial Tobacco’s factories, tells of his initial mistrust of MBU and eventual full commitment toward the process. Take…
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August 13, 2019

Becoming a Victim of your own Success

So many businesses can trace their stories of success back to “the good old days” where they were small, entrepreneurial, knew everyone and they all understood how the business works…
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August 7, 2019

Transformational Coaching

The following two videos would appeal to those interested in developing their coaching abilities. In it, Springbok rugby player and professional rugby coach, Louis Koen introduces the coaching iceberg and…
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