November 2015 - Page 2 of 2

Lean Quote: Want to Be a Better Leader? Show Employees You Care.0
- Lean Quote
- November 13, 2015
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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Advice on Managing Resistance to Change 0
- Change Management
- November 11, 2015
Lean is in its purest sense a change management initiative, for it involves changing from a current state to a better state. Just as all change attracts resistance, Lean improvements also attract resistance to change, which may manifest as employees ignoring new processes, disagreeing with the benefits, making stringent criticisms, and more. Success depends on
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Management’s Expanded Role in Lean Thinking 0
- Lean Management
- November 10, 2015
Most often when people hear the term management it connotes a specific hierarchical structure of an organization. According to Wikipedia, management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. I prefer to use the metaphor of a bus
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Lean Quote: Variation is Evil 0
- Lean Quote
- November 6, 2015
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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Maybe So, Maybe Not. We’ll See.0
- Change Management
- November 4, 2015
What I have come to realize more and more is how quickly our minds tend to judge life. I am not sure where it comes from; maybe it is from childhood, where we learn the separation of things. There is a Chinese Proverb that goes something like this… A farmer and his son had a
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