A Lean Journey Book Review: Go for Third - Leadership Lessons from the Softball Field to the Workplace by Derek Volk
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- February 23, 2026
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Advice on Managing Resistance to Change0
- Change Management
- November 11, 2015
Lean is in its purest sense a change management initiative, for it involves changing from a current state to a better state. Just as all change attracts resistance, Lean improvements also attract resistance to change, which may manifest as employees ignoring new processes, disagreeing with the benefits, making stringent criticisms, and more. Success depends on
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Management’s Expanded Role in Lean Thinking0
- Lean Management
- November 10, 2015
Most often when people hear the term management it connotes a specific hierarchical structure of an organization. According to Wikipedia, management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. I prefer to use the metaphor of a bus
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Lean Quote: Variation is Evil0
- Lean Quote
- November 6, 2015
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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Maybe So, Maybe Not. We’ll See.0
- Change Management
- November 4, 2015
What I have come to realize more and more is how quickly our minds tend to judge life. I am not sure where it comes from; maybe it is from childhood, where we learn the separation of things. There is a Chinese Proverb that goes something like this… A farmer and his son had a
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Lean Quote: The Continuous Part of Continuous Improvement0
- Lean Quote
- October 30, 2015
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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Daily Lean Tips Edition #86 (1291-1305)0
- Lean Tips
- October 28, 2015
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: Leadership Lessons from Great Presidents
- Change Management, Lean Quote
- February 20, 2026
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