The Amber Vial Story: When Methods Overshadow Human Experience
What happens when leaders trust the method more than the people closest to the work? In this story from the heyday of Six Sigma, a simple frontline insight could have solved a life-saving drug shortage in weeks. Instead, the project dragged on for months, costing millions—and putting patients at risk.
Ideas-to-Action Video Newsletter Issue 5 | Avoiding the Frontline Change Trap
In this issue of the Ideas-to-Action Video Newsletter, author Rick Tucci revisits the rise and decline of Six Sigma to highlight a common leadership pitfall he calls the Frontline Change Trap. It’s what happens when methods become doctrine, overshadow frontline wisdom, and slow down progress. Drawing on stories from the heyday of Lean Six Sigma, Rick explains why methods must remain tools—not goals—and why frontline experience is often the fastest, most reliable form of data for accelerating change.
The Ideas-to-Action Q&A Series Issue 5: How Leaders Can Avoid the Frontline Change Trap
Many leaders turn to proven methods like Lean and Six Sigma to drive change. But when methods become doctrine, they can overshadow the wisdom of employees and stall progress. In this post, author Rick Tucci explains the Frontline Change Trap—and how leaders can avoid elevating process over results by balancing tools with frontline experience through the Ideas-to-Action Process™.
Conventional Change Management Is Broken: Fix It by Blending the Psychology and Science of Change
For decades, leaders have been told “change is hard” and fed a steady diet of conventional change management. But the track record speaks for itself: most initiatives stall, fade, or backfire. What if the problem isn’t employees resisting change, but leaders relying on the wrong playbook?
Ideas-to-Action Video Newsletter Issue 4 | The Impasse to Change (and Why It Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard!)
We’ve all heard it: “Change is hard.” But is it really? In this episode of the Ideas-to-Action Video Newsletter, Rick Tucci explains why traditional change management makes change harder than it needs to be—and how the Ideas-to-Action Process™ helps leaders break through the Psychological Impasse to Change by turning engagement into ownership.