Kieron Hales: Family, Lean, and Failure Equal Employee Engagement

Great story of an English kid, a prodigy really, in music and cooking that has found a new family in the town of Dexter, Michigan and his business that is part of the Zingerman’s Community, Cornman Farms.

Creating a work family.
Lean and it’s importance to business and employee engagement.
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Build Your Business To Stay Small, Tom Root, Pt 01

Growing Your Business While Staying Small

Join me for the next four episodes as I speak with Tom Root, Managing Partner, Zingmerman’s Mail Order. Also continuous improvement leader and creator of a business maker space called Maker Works in Ann Arbor, MI. 

This is where it all started, as a small deli, now it’s 12 businesses.

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