Change takes Time - sometimes pretty long ;-)

Back in 2008, I had just left BMW to venture out as a team entrepreneur around the concept of CoWorking, the financial meltdown hit the world. Thinking that this would be the right time to stir up change across business, education, and institutions. Two years in time, things seem to be back to "normal" and yet everywhere around the globe sparks of change light up.

When do we see and experience the change in our community? 
What are the things that could be better than is right now? 

Reply by Ralf Lippold on December 26, 2008 at 6:18am

Hi ...,

Thanks a lot for sharing your case study and thoughts around it.

It makes me curious to get deeper into the field as I sense that in the current situation in business and society most people are either stuck or have to leave their community (such as an organization).

Looking forward to getting more understanding in how to start such initiatives.

Best regards

Ralf

Shocking "truth" in the morning

What implication might that have? 

What on GDR maps was "white" back in the days is now 

the other way round. It seems that the concept of lean and 

making things easy is not popular in Eastern Germany.

Is it true what we see?

Due to the the constraints during the GDR times people very

much have understood to create value with what they have.

Meaning that lean thinking is essentially embedded in the "DNA"

of workers, researchers, and people in the Mecklenburg, Sachsen,

Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen, Brandenburg.

What is your personal experience?

PS.: The publication "Der Neuerer" ran till 1990 and with it ended
the "lean spirit" in the GDR. More about the background here. [Both
links are only in German, please use GoogleTranslate]