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Lean Tips Edition #315 (#3751 – #3765)0
- Lean Tips
- May 7, 2025
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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How to Set Team Goals that Drive Success 0
- Goals, Teamwork
- May 5, 2025
Most managers know how important it is to set goals for themselves and their teams. Without some form of direction, teams will meander and just deal with the urgent things that crop up every day. As leaders, the crucial task of team goal setting falls on your shoulders — it’s your responsibility to establish what
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Lean Quote: Leadership Should Be More Participative than Directive, More Enabling than Performing 0
- Lean Quote
- May 2, 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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Lean Roundup #191 – April 2025 0
- Lean Roundup
- April 30, 2025
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of April 2025. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Fluctuations on Continuously Moving Assembly Lines 3—The Value of Team Leaders – Christoph Roser talks about one key tool for reducing fluctuations on Toyota assembly lines is the team leader,
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The Lean Journey is Long and Winding Road 0
- A Lean Journey
- April 28, 2025
The Lean Journey: A Long and Winding Road Toward Continuous Improvement How do you start your Lean journey? It begins not with a perfect plan but with a mindset shift—a decision to embrace continuous improvement as a way of life. The Lean journey roadmap is not a straight highway; rather, it’s a winding road filled
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Lean Quote: Leaders Need to be Proactive, Not Just Reactive 0
- Lean Quote
- April 25, 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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Unlocking the Hidden Factory 0
- Productivity, Sharing Best Practices
- April 23, 2025
A “Hidden Factory” forms when a defect flows downstream. When the defect is caught, a workaround is created as it is removed from the line, fixed, and placed back on the line. This may solve the problem in the short term, but when you do the same thing over and over again, the workarounds add
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Teach Them How To Fish 0
- Development/Training, Leadership, Respect For People
- April 21, 2025
There’s an old saying, usually attributed to Confucius, that goes something like “Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ve fed him for a lifetime.” There’s an important life lesson in that simple statement. Some people translate it conceptually into something like “Education is
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Lean Quote: Good Friday is a Day of Hope 0
- Lean Quote
- April 18, 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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