September 2010 - Page 2 of 2

Lean Quote: The Winner 0
- Lean Quote
- September 17, 2010
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Learning from Geese 0
- Leadership
- September 15, 2010
Living in New England you become accustom to seeing the migration of Geese. As the leaves start turning colors the Geese head south for the winter. I came across the “Lesson from Geese” from a colleague this week. The story was written in 1972 by Dr. Robert McNeish, a science teacher from Baltimore, Maryland for
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The Lean Way to Tie Your Shoes 0
- Lean in Practice
- September 14, 2010
Visual instructions on how to tie a “Ian knot” show six simple steps. This is the world’s fastest shoelace knot because there are fewer sequential steps and it all happens in a single, fluid movement. It has been said that the reduction in time could add up to 4 days per lifetime. Tying your shoes
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A Colorful Way of Solving Problems 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- September 13, 2010
Problem solving is a systematic thinking process to bring about change. In ordinary thinking, the thinker leaps from critical thinking to neutrality to optimism and so on without structure or strategy. Many successful people think from a very rational, positive viewpoint, and this is part of the reason that they are successful. Often, though, they
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Lean Quote: Character Matters!0
- Lean Quote
- September 10, 2010
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Get More Done by Doing Less 0
- Lean in Practice, Lean Resources, Visual Factory
- September 9, 2010
Most of us get paralysed when faced with a large and complicated undertaking. Jason Yip gives some tips on how to get it done from Ignite Sydney this past August. Jason is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks focused on Agile and Lean Software Development. Stop Starting and Start Finishing Some keypoints from the video: 1. The
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