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Lean Quote: Leadership is All About People0
- Lean Quote
- March 23, 2012
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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Building Your Change Muscle0
- Change Management
- March 21, 2012
Change is hard; even if you want to change. If you don’t think so try changing the way you fold your arms. Many times, the actual change is not the real problem; instead, we feel frustrated when we can’t find meaning in our new situation. Impatience and a longing for certainty also get in the
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Facebook’s New Timeline and Dealing With Change0
- In the News
- March 20, 2012
Facebook will soon start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline. Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook. It’s the most radical change in the history of the site. This news has been greeted with intense emotion in the blogosphere. Changing the place we call home
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Why Must We Sell Quality0
- ASQ's Influential Voices
- March 19, 2012
In ASQ President, Paul Borawski’s blog post this month he asks how do you sell quality. My first thought is why must we sell quality. If you define quality as satisfying your customer and taking pride in what you do can we not expect this as a given. What does this say about the culture
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Lean Quote: Making Better Decisions0
- Lean Quote
- March 16, 2012
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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Debunking Six Common Misconceptions of Standardized Work0
- Lean Basics
- March 14, 2012
Last week I featured a guest post on standard work as a mechanism for facilitating and empowering improvement. By documenting the current best practice, standardized work forms the baseline for kaizen or continuous improvement. As the standard is improved, the new standard becomes the baseline for further improvements, and so on. Improving standardized work is
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New Sponsor – LeanKit Kanban0
- A Lean Journey
- March 13, 2012
I am pleased to announce a new sponsor on A Lean Journey Blog – LeanKit Kanban. LeanKit Kanban is tool that was originally conceived for managing software development that has come to be used in lots of other business areas, construction, manufacturing, logistics, fleet vehicle maintenance, etc., for teams from one to hundreds. I have been
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #280
- Lean Tips
- March 12, 2012
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 Quote: Adversity is an Opportunity for Growth0
- Lean Quote
- March 9, 2012
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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