I’d like to think that I turned my naïve endeavor to share learning along my own journey into a successful contribution in the Lean community. As I have said before this labor of love has been a tremendous learning process both from the great fans and other colleagues online that I exchange with and from the process of distilling my own learning with you.

Some may be asking how do you define success for a blog?  I think like most publications it is basically about audience.  Are you growing followers? Are people reading your posts? So like in previous years we can look at the number visitors, Facebook fan, tweeps on Twitter, and LinkedIn members as an indication of growth.

I love statistics, so with this milestone, here are some numbers from the blog:

Total Posts: 2068

Most read post:  The Six-Step Problem-Solving Process with over 34,925 views

followed by DOWNTIME and the Eight Wastes with over 32,440 views

and by What Do We Mean By True North? with over 31,685 views

Number of countries/territories who have visited this blog:  230

Top 5 Countries with the most views:

U.S.A. – 35%

India – 15%

Philippines – 8%

United Kingdom – 7%

Canada – 5%

Total views:  Over 1,777,490 and climbing

Unique visits: Over 1,436,650

Total comments:  Over 1,500

Total Facebook Fans: Over 2,300

Total Twitter Followers: Over 3,680

LinkedIn Members: Over 1,200

Total Tips Shared: Over 2,790

Top 5 posts this past year:

Five Lean Games Every Company Can Benefit From


10 Ways to Motivate Your Team


DIVE Deep to Understand Root Causes and Solve Problems


Focus on Countermeasures Not Solutions to Problems


Six Practical Tips for Developing an Engaged Workforce


I am so grateful to everyone who has read my posts and/or followed this blog and my other blogs. Some of you have been with me since I began this journey.  Even though we never have met, you comment on my posts and continually send me words of encouragement.  Blogging has been a much more rewarding experience than I imagined it could be!  

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