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  • Lean Roundup #206 – July 2026

    Lean Roundup #206 – July 20260

    A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of July 2026.  You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. A Kaizen Board in Japan, and a Manager Who Answered Every Sheet – Mark Graban shares an example from a Japanese kaizen board where every employee improvement received a written

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  • Alchemy of Adversity: A Leadership Book That Starts Where Most Don’t

    Alchemy of Adversity: A Leadership Book That Starts Where Most Don’t0

    Most leadership books begin with frameworks, models, and tools. Alchemy of Adversity by Sarah Staley takes a very different path—it begins with a deeply personal story of loss, trauma, and survival, then builds toward what leadership looks like on the other side of it. This is not a typical leadership playbook. It’s a raw, human

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