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Many managers ask me “How can I accelerate my company’s Lean transformation?” My answer is two fold: First get the direction right, and then get..
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September 16 , 2013.
Labor Dazed
A century after the first Labor Day celebration, during a factory re-organization, I discovered firsthand the meaning of “territorial imperative.”..
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August 30 , 2013.
Upstream Swimmers
I was asked recently by a colleague if I make stuff up for my blog. “Some of your stories seem too crazy,” he said. The answer is, no, I haven’t made..
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August 16 , 2013.
Is Lean the Dark Side of TPS?
I opened a fortune cookie yesterday, which read: “Understanding little is better than misunderstanding a lot.” Seems to me that we Lean wannabes..
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August 08 , 2013.
Seeing the Invisible
[This post celebrates the product launch for a great new book Seeing The Invisible, authored by GBMP’s friend and collaborator, John Kravontka, and..
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July 26 , 2013.
Value Stream Wrapping
Gazing into a microscope as a college sophomore, I sketched the innards of a single-celled critter as part of biology exam. I knew what I was looking..
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January 05 , 2012.
Bending the Curve
America’s form of government, borne out of an ideal of freedom and equality, has, for all of our short-term criticisms, been the object of continuous..
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September 14 , 2011.