You're Good When You Think You're Bad
Well over a decade ago I created my first lean enterprise assessment, just as a tool to help me understand gaps in my organization. I'm generally…
The Dangerous Lite Side of Mindfulness and Lean
By Kevin Meyer I’ll preface this post by saying that yes, I’m from crazy California, I eat granola with fruits and nuts in the morning, am vegetarian…
The Power of High Performance Decisions
By Kevin Meyer For the past couple weeks I've been digging into employee handbooks as a startup I'm involved with has grown to the point of n…
About that "Human Error"...
By Kevin Meyer Thanks to Twitter, again, I recently came across one of the most insightful articles I've read in a long time - on a safety blog n…
Leadership by Welch, Immelt... and Layer
By Kevin Meyer Regular readers know that I'm no big fan of Jack Welch, to put it mildly. My opinion is shared by many in the lean world, at leas…
The Paralyzing Waste of Indecision
By Kevin Meyer One of my favorite blogs, Raptitude by David Cain, recently had a post on decisionmaking and minimalism. As an aspiring minimalist th…
The Reek of Creativity
By Kevin Meyer When I first read Justin Brady's article on creativity in The Wall Street Journal last week I immediately thought here comes anoth…
Those Disposable People
By Kevin Meyer Several articles over the past week have once again raised my hackles on the oft-forgotten second pillar of lean: respect for people.…