Manufacturing Executive Martina Kuhlmeyer Had Too Many High-Priority Initiatives

<p>Founder of Power Up Your Team</p> <p><a href="https://markgraban.com/mistake187">Episode page with video, transcript, and more</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #187 of the <a href="http://myfavoritemistakepodcast.com/">My Favorite Mistake podcast</a> is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-kuhlmeyer/">Martina Kuhlmeyer</a>, the Founder of <a href="https://powerupyourteam.com/">Power Up Your Team</a> — and she’s the host of a <a href="https://powerupyourteam.com/podcast/">podcast</a> with that same name.</p> <p>As Leadership Coach and Team Building Strategist, she is guiding CEOs and Founders in high-growth companies to build a resilient team so they can scale and win in the marketplace.</p> <p>Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Martina spent 30+ years working for small and several fortune 100 companies, including General Electric, Textron, Fidelity Investments and Liberty Mutual.&nbsp;Martina held a variety of executive roles focused on continuous improvement AND driving large strategic change initiatives. As P&amp;L owner, she managed the successful turnaround of a $1.3 billion asset portfolio management company.</p> <p>Martina was born and raised in Germany.</p> <p>In this episode, Martina tells her favorite mistake story about starting to use a management process called “strategy deployment” (a.k.a. "hoshin kanri") and how she overcomplicated it by having too many “high-priority” initiatives. Why did she and others on her team make that mistake? How did they recover? And how did they work to create a culture that adjusts and learns from mistakes?</p> <p>We also talk about questions and topics including:</p> <ul> <li>We were introduced by <a href="https://www.markgraban.com/interview-with-karyn-ross-on-her-favorite-travel-mistake-episode-3-of-my-favorite-mistake/">Karyn Ross from Episode 3</a></li> <li><a href="https://loveandkindnessproject.org/">Karyn's foundation - the Love and Kindness Project</a></li> <li>“Strategy Deployment” (or “<a href="https://www.lean.org/lexicon-terms/hoshin-kanri/">Ho