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# Management Improvement Carnival #108
- URL: https://www.kevinmeyer.com/management-improvement-carnival-108/
- Published: 2010-09-01T12:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-07T18:08:02.000Z
- Author: Kevin Meyer
- Tags: Basic Excellence, #Migrated-1752356847400, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-12 14:48

Evolving Excellence is hosting this 108th edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. Previous carnivals can be found here. Of we go with a sampling of posts from the past couple weeks.

- Gemba Panta Rei: 5 Ways the Obeya Increases Profit - A large room without walls can increase communication, reduce space, reduce meetings, and make bottlenecks visible.
- Lean Blog: Mental Models: Standardized Work and Performance Measures - Standard work and performance measures mean different things in a traditional command and control organization versus a lean organization.
- Flinchbaugh: Small-i ROI as Applied to Strategy - Sometimes instead of focusing on the big R in ROI, it can pay to find a unique niche requiring just a small i.
- Shmula: Your Baby is Ugly - It happens with babies, it happens with business. Sometimes you become so invested in your idea or mindset that you fail to see the truth.
- Gemba Tales: Developing Leader Standard Work - Five Important Steps - key components of leader standard work.
- Lean Thinker: Using the Questions - Stay on track by holding to the five coaching questions.
- A Lean Journey: Personal Kanban Kaizen - Tim continues his quest to develop and refine a visual kanban system for his personal projects.
- Lean Reflections: Choosing Online Collaboration Tools for Teams - in the end it's not the tools, but the thinking.
- Curious Cat: Managing Our Way to Economic Success - some great words from John's father on two great untapped resources in an organization: potential information and employee creativity.
- Evolving Excellence: [To Shingo or not to Shingo?](https://www.kevinmeyer.com/to-shingo-or-not-to-shingo/) \- The second of [two](https://www.kevinmeyer.com/so-did-the-shingo-prize-really-change/) posts discussing, again, the impact of diluting the Shingo Prize with regional awards and "not quite a full Shingo" medallions.