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Lean manufacturing is an economic business model - not a religion, not a moral crusade, and not a social cause. Treating people decently, with respect…

Every year or so one of our neighbors takes us out for Sunday brunch. She is considerably older than us, a world-traveller, very refined and formal, w…

A few days ago Kevin wrote a piece about competition, making the point that any company that thinks it can follow the same old manufacturing practices…

We've all experienced the occassional wrath of Mother Nature on our operations... leaky roofs, electrical outages, and the like.  But what happens…

Have you thought recently about how the internet has changed the world? I'm dating myself, but I do remember playing Pong in high school, feeding…

There is a lot of good lean material out there you can get your hands on for free, so I thought it was about time I used the power of the blog to spre…

I blatantly stole this from someone named Joseph who posted it on MySpace because it is too good to stay hidden on MySpace. Thanks, Joseph, whoever yo…

There is a fine post on the Lean Blog exhorting senior managers to work closely with the middle management folks to assure that they are effectively c…