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Padding factory performance has become a best practice at one company I visited recently. As I walked the floor with the site manager, I was..

Some time ago, while giving a presentation entitled Organizational Obstacles to Lean, I displayed a slide with the title “It’s Not about Culture”. My..

A recent comment from a business friend, call him Tom, who manages a small factory, reminded me of a scene from The Wizard of Oz. “Our president is..

I’ve been doing a lot of speaking at conferences this spring, and I’m always warmly greeted as the “Toast Guy”: the person who produced and starred..

A few years ago, after I gave a speech on Lean at a meeting of the Transformer Association (like the kind on the telephone poles providing..

I went to the gym this morning, April 1, and the gym’s owner, sole employee, and pretty much everyone’s personal trainer, Howie, asked me the same..

My son, Ben, asked me last week, “How come the bacon cooks better on Grandma’s pan?” I’d just fried up some bacon using a pan handed down from my..

This winter has presented folks in my clime with a perpetual blanket of snow that hides most of the welcome signs of an approaching spring. There is..

I was reminded this week how problematical the conceptual blind spots in our management systems can be: An otherwise insightful and..

My last post about superficial improvement may have implied that the condition is limited to organizations with deep enough pockets to buy pricey..