A Fresh Start: Lean Thinking for the New Year
- Goals
- January 1, 2026

When organizations want to improve their performance, they often benchmark. Benchmarking is the process of comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. The discussion of whether benchmarking is good or bad is an old one. Benchmarking can be an effective means to learn new skills and
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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
READ MOREMy buddy Paul Akers at FastCap shares another great example of applying Lean thinking and techniques to make our life easier. This time he takes us into the kitchen at FastCap where the use of visual controls and standard work are examined. I wonder if any of you will take any of these ideas and implement
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Time management truly is critical to becoming productive, doing everything you want to, and achieving ultimate success. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn Therefore it is imperative we learn to manage the finite amount of time we do have to make
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by ~Walkington Time is one of the most important commodities that we have. But we are often bombarded with more tasks than we can keep up with. This can result in our most important things being shifted to second place just out of necessity. In order to counter act this you must fully understand time.
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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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