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Leadership Lessons from 2025: Insights from a Global Manufacturing Executive 0
- In the News, Leadership
- December 8, 2025
In today’s dynamic manufacturing landscape, few leaders embody resilience and adaptability quite like Nashay Naeve, President of the Engineered Plastic Components Business Unit at Tsubaki-Nakashima. As one of the few women leading three global plants—located in Michigan, Italy, and the UK—Nashay oversees international operations from her home in Georgia. Her journey from mechanical engineer to global executive
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Lean Quote: Don’t Judge Too Quickly 0
- Lean Quote
- December 5, 2025
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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3 Leadership Tips from Executive Coach Michael King to Start the New Year Strong 0
- Goals, Leadership
- December 3, 2025
As we prepare to turn the page into a new year, leaders everywhere are reflecting on how to create clarity, build stronger teams, and drive meaningful progress. Executive coach Michael King—founder of TEAMS. Coach and host of The Level Up Leader podcast—offers powerful guidance that pairs naturally with Lean leadership principles. His message: leadership success in the
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Lean Tips Edition #325 (#3901 – #3915)0
- Lean Tips
- December 1, 2025
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 help you along your journey. Another
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Lean Quote: Black Friday Lessons in Lean Leadership 0
- Leadership
- November 28, 2025
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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Lean Roundup #198 – November 2025 0
- Lean Roundup
- November 26, 2025
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of November 2025. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. How Great Leaders Prevent Mistakes and Learn from the Ones That Happen – Mark Graban argues that the strongest improvement cultures pair mistake prevention with fearless learning—shifting from blame to
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