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Management Improvement Carnival #103

07.10.2010

Thanks again to John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog for inviting me to host issue #103 of the Management Improvement Carnival.
Lean Consumption: A Summary – since Womack and Jones Lean Solutions book, there still hasn’t been much written about lean consumption but Pete Abilla take it on here.
UK Government Wants Lean and [...]

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The new Lean Learning Center Video Blog

02.21.2010

Andy Carlino and I will be publishing occasional video blogs. We’ve done a couple of topics already, which we only posted as links directly to the video. We’ve recently added this video blog page to the Lean Learning Center website.  
If you want to stay tuned to when note posts are released, you can subscribe for [...]

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The Fall of the Mighty Toyota

02.17.2010

p=357 Killer decontenting: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/too-good-to-be-true-how-toyotas-success-caused-killer-decontenting/ Direct link to Toyota’s content: http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/toyota-consumer-safety-advisory-102572.aspx WSJ, the engineering problem: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703389004575032844153687042.html#mod=todays_us_opinion Lentz on NBC’s Today Show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35179161#35179161 http://www.inpursuitofelegance.com/post/2010/01/30/Toyota-Recall-The-Penalty-of-Leadership.aspx http://blogs.hbr.org/winston/2010/02/toyota-getting-squished.html?… p=365 http://www.lean.org/shook/ what Toyota workers are doing: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/83859.html Tom Johnson: http://blog.pegasuscom.com/Leverage-Points-Blog/bid/30450/How-Toyota-Ran-Off-the-Road-and-How-It-Can-Get-Back-on-Track Toyota right way to work: http://betterforeveryone.blogspot.com/2010/02/toyota-once-hailed-as-right-way-to-work.html Time: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100211/wl_time/08599196359500

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25 Problems..or how to focus on the right systems

02.08.2010

This month I have a featured article in Kevin Meyer’s Superfactory Newsletter. I’ve been a subscriber for many years, and Kevin does a great job.
My contribution is titled 25 Problems..or how to focus on the right systems. I hope you’ll give a read, and sign up for the Superfactory newsletter.
I haven’t contributed to Superfactory since [...]

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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 way [...]

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Bloggers Friday Follows: Eric Ries

01.22.2010

If you’re on Twitter, you know of the tradition of the Friday Follow where you share who you follow so that others might benefit in the same way. I think the same think should apply to blogging. So I occasionally post a Bloggers Friday Follows of interesting bloggers that I enjoy reading, and enjoy learning [...]

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Favorite Blog Posts

12.31.2009

It’s the end of the year, and my first year with a dedicated blog (I’ve been blogging as a guest for LeanBlog since 2005). So as a point of reflection, I thought I would share my favorite blog posts so far. Here’s my top picks:
Solve your own darn problems – the more I think and [...]

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Management Carnival Annual Roundup

12.28.2009

What are the best blog posts of 2009? I would be willing to say that the best blog posts have probably contributed more than the best book releases. John Hunter of Curious Cat blog has done a wonderful job beginning a practice and a community of people sharing the best blog posts on lean, Deming, [...]

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Some Christmas Blogger Fun

12.24.2009

Mark Graban of LeanBlog was nice enough (the way an 8 year old boy is nice to his 6 year old brother) to put together this collection of lean bloggers in this Elf dance. Besides Mark and myself, you will also find Kevin Meyer of Evolving Excellence, Pete Abilla of Shmula, and Ron Pereira of [...]

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Take Fridays Off, or Work While They Slack?

12.19.2009

Here are two contrasting points via video. One video is from Chris Brogan of ChrisBrogan.com. The other video is from Cameron Herold of BackPocket COO. Check out both the videos.
Chris says work while they slack and you can distance yourself from the competition. Cameron says take Fridays off. No, that’s not the secret. His real [...]

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