Using Solitude and Silence to Enable Reflection
I will take time to be alone today. I will take time to be quiet. In this silence I will listen… and I will hear my answers. – Ruth Fishel Last Memor…
Waste Whack-a-Mole
Today is garbage day in my neighborhood, and like most people in California and probably most of the U.S. if not the world, our trash is neatly segreg…
A Painful Perspective from the Goofy Foot Pop Up
For the past couple years I've worked hard at getting into the best shape I've been in in decades. In fact, many of us at Gemba Academy have,…
A Time to Read and Reflect
It's that time of the year when we reflect on the past and plan for the future. An arbitrary time, which has always bothered me. We should reall…
Designing a Lean Home
I've received several comments on The Simple Leader, with some of the most unexpected having to do with the section where I discuss my desire to d…
A Break to Reflect and Unlearn
Over the past few years I’ve been working hard on cultivating positive habits. New habits can be powerful. But habits can also create barriers that li…
The Liberating Lessons of Less
My twenty plus year Lean journey has changed my life in many ways, perhaps none as significant as a creating a pervasive recognition of and disdain fo…
Explore Out of the Box
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ralph Emerson It's that arbitrary time of the year w…