People & Culture

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…