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Lean Quote: A Lack of A Problem Solving Process Means More Problems 0
- Lean Quote
- November 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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Meet-up: Personal Kanban’s Jim Benson 0
- Meet-up
- November 7, 2012
Today’s guest on the meet-up guest is Jim Benson. Jim is the co-author (along with Tonianne DeMaria Barry) of Personal Kanban. Jim and Tonianne are the ones who got me turned on to use of a kanban system for personal productivity. They wrote a wonderful book that allows anyone to visualize work in a simple
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Book Review: Reflections of A Business Nomad 0
- Book Review
- November 6, 2012
On Friday, I received in the mail Pascal Dennis’s new book Reflections of a Business Nomad. As a longtime fan of Pascal’s work over the years I sat down Saturday to learn his newest lessons. Reflections of a Business Nomad is not like Pascal’s other awarding winning books (Lean Production Simplified, Andy & Me, Getting
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A Ted talk about the Laws of Subtraction by the Author Matthew E. May 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- November 5, 2012
We live in an age of excess everything–an era of overwhelming choice, crippling complexity, and feature overload. Standing out in the age of excess everything demands a singular skill: Subtraction. The world’s most original innovators all know this: less is best. They know that by removing just the right things in just the right way,
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Lean Quote: Don’t Think You Know Everything 0
- Lean Quote
- November 2, 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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The Secrets of Success in Eight Words, in Three Minutes 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- October 31, 2012
Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart, or are they just lucky? Analyst Richard St. John condenses 7 years of research and 500 interviews from TEDTalks into an unmissable 3-minute presentation on the real secrets of success. If the video leaves you wanting more, St. John has written a book on these eight
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