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

I am not sure how many of you have elementary age kids but I have 3 lovely kids that age. Every time I visit their classrooms I notice all the visuals. They use visuals throughout their learning process. Whether it is learning the alphabet, weather, time, dates, reading or whatever else the topic it is
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There is a new blog within the Lean community called Lean Simulations. This is the creation of Martin Boersema, a Lean practitioner from the Toronto area. The goal of this site is to create a resource or repository for training simulations, videos, and other tools for sharing and learning. Martin explains this in his own words:
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Memorial Day is a time to remember former and present service members. I want to wish everybody out there a wonderful Memorial Day. Hopefully, everybody can spend some quality time with their families and the people they love and remember what this holiday is about. “If you will not fight for right when you can easily
READ MOREOn 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 MOREIt is important that you apply Lean thinking to solve your own problems. Since every business and industry is different the problems are also different. While we can all learn from each other we must customize our solution if we want the countermeasure to be effective and sustained. A common area you see custom solutions
READ MOREFor 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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