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Something is going on with a few lean companies in India that bears keeping an eye on.  The greatest fear American manufacturers have - or at least th…

I've often written about how lean manufacturing methods can be applied to the home, but working on lean in my inlaws' home has now made me rea…

Behold the power of the list! Perhaps it is the linear-thinking engineer in me or else I just do a poor job of unstructured juggling, but I have alwa…

The Fortune list of the 100 best companies to work for includes Pella, a company I have mentioned as being pretty lean a few times over the last few m…

A week and a half ago, Kevin Meyer wrote a piece called "Are Employees Really Your Most Important Asset?" in which he expanded on some of th…

A veritable 'Who's Who' of great American thinkers who, well, think great things, I guess, got together in Washington a while back under t…

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…

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.…