Looking Lean vs. Being Lean - It Begins With Leadership and Culture
9 January 2006
Over the past few months Bill and I have written several posts on the difference between looking lean and truly being lean. Most of the discussion be…
9 January 2006
Over the past few months Bill and I have written several posts on the difference between looking lean and truly being lean. Most of the discussion be…
8 January 2006
The holidays have been a busy time for all of us, but bloggers kept on posting. Here we go again with some of our favorite lean and leadership posts.…
4 January 2006
Jon Miller from Gemba Panta Rei and Karen Wilhelm from SME, a couple of very good lean thinkers and bloggers from whom I learn a lot, reacted to my …
3 January 2006
What do you say we make a New Year's resolution - all of us in the lean community - that we (especially me) spend a lot more time in 2006 looking…
31 December 2005
I'm sure I'm not unique in the world of lean manufacturing professionals in that I return from the office every evening and see lean opportuni…
29 December 2005
The month of December should not come to a close without manufacturing folks across America taking a moment to raise a toast to Alexander Hamilton. I…
29 December 2005
How effective are you at juggling multiple tasks? What is the effect of irrelevant tasks on value-added activities? A hat tip to Management Craft…
27 December 2005
"Employees are our most important asset." How many company value/vision/mission statements include that? I would guess over 90%... of the…