Lean Quote: Small Efforts, Big Results: The Power of Daily Kaizen
- kaizen, Lean Quote
- March 13, 2026

I am pleased to announce a new sponsor to A Lean Journey Blog – First American Plastic Molding Enterprises. First American Plastic Molding Enterprises is a custom provider of thermoplastic injection molding manufacturing solutions for companies throughout most industries. Because of the versatility of plastic and plastic injection molding, almost any industry with manufacturing needs
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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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Last November, ASQ, together with organizations, leaders, and stakeholders in the Global Quality Community, celebrated the inaugural World Quality Month. This year ASQ is again joining with the Global Quality Community for World Quality Month 2011. “Consumers and other businesses will seek to interact with those organizations whose commitment to quality is strongest, or in
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My friend Bob Emiliani recently shared a collection of videos from a research project he led on Wiremold’s Lean transformation in 2001. These historic videos capture an amazing event that took place on 5 November 2001, when a group of more than 25 executives, physicians, and department managers from Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) made
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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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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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