A Lean Look at Task Management

29 December 2005

How effective are you at juggling multiple tasks?  What is the effect of irrelevant tasks on value-added activities?    A hat tip to Management Craft…

Carnival of Lean Leadership #4

10 December 2005

Welcome to the fourth Carnival of Lean Leadership.  There's a lot of material to cover this time, so we'll get right to it... The highlight o…

Carnival of Lean Leadership #3

22 November 2005

We'll try a slightly different format for this third installment of our biweekly Carnival.  To read the first two Carnivals, click here and here.…

Tales from a Tour of NUMMI

22 November 2005

Over the past few weeks Mark Graban at the Lean Manufacturing Blog has posted several articles describing his visit to the NUMMI plant.  NUMMI is a jo…

Fix What's Broken

19 November 2005

One of my favorite weblogs lately is Mark Hurst's This Is Broken.  Almost every day he posts photos of "broken" signs, processes, design…

Carnival of Lean Leadership #2

7 November 2005

This is post number 100 for the Evolving Excellence blog, and it is therefore appropriate that we celebrate blogs themselves by creating the second Ca…

Carnival of Lean Leadership

8 October 2005

Those of you who are regular blog readers know that a "blog carnival" is a post that links to recent posts at many other blogs that revolve…