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Book Review: The Laws of Subtraction0
- Book Review
- May 7, 2013
Less is indeed more in our age of excess in everything. Our lives have become complicated, overwhelming, and more demanding. Award winning author Matthew E. May has an answer for this in his book The Laws of Subtraction. Subtraction is defined simply as the art of removing anything excessive, confusing, wasteful, unnatural, hazardous, hard to
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Top 10 Reason Why Lean Transformation Fails0
- Change Management, Lean Management
- May 6, 2013
I believe when Lean principles are properly understood and applied, the upside for productivity improvements is nearly infinite. I have personally witnessed numerous Lean thinking initiatives that have improved productivity by large amounts (like 40-60%) in short periods of time with minimal expenditures. The Lean track record is well documented by numerous authors. Despite the
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Lean Quote: Success Requires Passion in the Face of Failure0
- Lean Quote
- May 3, 2013
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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Small Teams vs Keeping Everyone Informed0
- Teamwork
- May 1, 2013
In response to the post “Collaboration Techniques for Moving Ideas & Decisions Forward” a reader on our Facebook page recently asked “How do you reconcile between keeping everyone involved and keeping the team small?” Highly empowered and effective teams are the key to compete in today’s world of high technology processes, six sigma quality and
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Simple Steps to a Lean Email0
- Guest Post
- April 29, 2013
Today I am pleased to present a guest post by Tony Ferraro of Creative Safety Supply (one of our sponsors). Tony talks about email best practices and provides some tips on productivity. This a topic I am sure we can all use some help improving. ——————————————————————————— If you are like the majority of people, your
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Lean Quote: True Success Of A Leader Can Not Be Measured Without Considering The Results Of The Succession Plan0
- Lean Quote
- April 26, 2013
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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Book Review: The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook0
- Book Review
- April 24, 2013
Any time you are trying to learn something new or you need to jog your memory your will find a reference guide helpful. Mark Eaton, as consultant, author and lean practitioner himself, authored a practical reference guide that will be useful on a day-to-day basis. TheLean Practitioner’s Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and the
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #460
- Lean Tips
- April 23, 2013
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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Lean Eliminates DOWNTIME, Green adds FEWER0
- Lean and Green
- April 22, 2013
Today is Earth Day 2013 whose theme is the Face of Climate Change. I am not an expert in this topic and nor I am going to talk about it here. However, in celebration of the environment today I thought I would share some thoughts on the use of Lean and Green together for the
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