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Book Review: PROACTIVE Problem Solving — A Fresh Take on Building a Problem-Solving Culture 0
- Book Review
- June 22, 2026
Stop Fixing Problems. Start Fixing Systems. Most organizations don’t suffer from a lack of problems. They suffer from a lack of people who feel empowered to solve them. Walk through almost any workplace and you’ll hear employees complain about inefficient processes, unnecessary bureaucracy, recurring mistakes, and frustrating workarounds. Yet many of those same employees
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Lean Quote: Lessons from Dad 0
- Leadership, Lean Quote
- June 19, 2026
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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Book Review: Building Culture the NASA Way 0
- Book Review
- June 17, 2026
What NASA’s Mission Framework Can Teach Leaders About Building Better Organizations As a kid, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut. I attended Space Camp in Huntsville three different times, fascinated by rockets, space exploration, and the incredible accomplishments of NASA. While my career ultimately took a different path—engineering, manufacturing, and continuous improvement—that interest in
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What It Takes to Win: Building a Continuous Improvement Culture in Business 0
- Culture, Leadership
- June 15, 2026
Winning in business isn’t just about talent—it’s about effort, discipline, and an unrelenting commitment to excellence. It’s about embracing a mindset of consistent, incremental growth and putting customer value at the center of everything you do. As leaders, we often look for the magic formula that separates high performers from the rest. But time and
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Lean Quote: Learn, Unlearn, Relearn 0
- Change Management, Lean Quote
- June 12, 2026
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 Red Bead Experiment Still Matters — and Now It’s Online 0
- Exercises/Games, Lean in Practice
- June 10, 2026
One of the most memorable lessons in Lean and continuous improvement doesn’t come from a spreadsheet, a KPI dashboard, or a PowerPoint presentation. It comes from a bucket of beads. Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s famous “Red Bead Experiment” has been teaching leaders about systems thinking, variation, and management mistakes for decades. Today, thanks to Mark
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