From the monthly archives:

February 2010

To lean, or not to lean?

02.05.2010

Should you start lean in a difficult period such as this? But shouldn’t I wait things out? Shouldn’t I take it slow? Or keep my head down? No. I think this is a great time for companies to be focused on a lean journey. Here are my reasons. Companies will only do it because it’s [...]

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My Most Successful Failure

02.03.2010

First, let me state that I don’t celebrate failure. But I do, as I wrote about last week in Fail, Learn, Lead, celebrate the learning that comes from failure. Blogger Jason Markow started the idea of #FAILweek with the idea that people can share their failures, their lessons from failures, their thoughts on failing. That’s [...]

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Leading Lean: Salvage Your Waste

02.01.2010

I have a new post published on Assembly Magazine. See the full article on that site. A great lean thinker has a lens for value…. Continue reading….  

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Doing More with Less

02.01.2010

This article originally appeared in Lean Progress, the quarterly newsletter of the Lean Learning Center available to subscribers. I also started this thought with a brief video blog in November. What’s your definition of lean? There are many. Personally, I think you shouldn’t focus too much energy on developing definitions. Perhaps the most common definition [...]

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