A Lean Look at Task Management

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…

Tales from a Tour of NUMMI

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

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

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…