Tim McMahon, Author at aleanjourney

Strategic Planning and Deployment: A Tool to Achieve Excellence 0
- Quality Magazine, Strategy
- April 7, 2025
Strategy is not about simply listing important initiatives. It is about making deliberate choices, setting direction, and ensuring the entire organization moves toward a common purpose. Strategic planning and deployment provide a structured approach to translate vision into measurable action and sustainable results. Traditional management-by-objective approaches often focus on assigning targets without ensuring true alignment.
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Lean Quote: Listen to the People You Lead 0
- Lean Tips
- April 4, 2025
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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6 Strategies to Coach Your Employees to Succeed 0
- Leadership, Respect For People
- April 2, 2025
Coaching is a difficult skill for many leaders to acquire. It’s vague and slow. Leaders tend to want to move quickly toward defined goals, reach those goals, and immediately move on to the next set of goals. Coaching is frustratingly elusive to understand and seemingly convoluted in the doing; it is much easier to direct
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Lean Roundup #190 – March 2025 0
- Lean Roundup
- March 31, 2025
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of March 2025. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Toyota Raku: Respect for People, Comfort, Ease, & Ergonomics – Mark Graban shares his experience to a Toyota plant that focused on raku–making work easier, more comfortable, and more accessible
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