Ask the CEO: Bill Canady on Profitable Growth, 80/20 Leadership & Lean Culture

Описание: "The best leaders align people around the few things that truly matter." — Bill Canady

In this KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinar, Mark Graban hosts Bill Canady, CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies. With over 30 years of experience leading companies to profitable growth, Bill shares insights on how to align teams, drive results, and use tools like Lean and the 80/20 principle to create focus and transformation—fast.

Together, Mark and Bill explore:

📊 Why 80/20 leadership is the "brains of the system"

🏭 How Bill uses Lean strategically, not just tactically—and what CEOs need to understand about it

🔁 The power of daily management and small Kaizen improvements

🧠 Why empathy and continuous learning are critical leadership traits

🛠️ How Lean applies to sales, engineering, and office functions—not just the factory floor

💬 How CEOs can support (or unintentionally block) CI efforts

💡 Why failure is part of learning—and how to lead through it

They also answer live questions from a global audience—from topics like AI in improvement work, to how CI leaders can gain more influence, to how to apply Lean across healthcare.

Bill also shares lessons from his books:

The 80/20 CEO

From Panic to Profit (available soon)

This is an unfiltered, insightful session with a CEO who’s walked the talk—and scaled companies from crisis to growth.

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