Book Review: Go for Third - Leadership Lessons from the Softball Field to the Workplace by Derek Volk
- Book Review
- February 23, 2026

A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of June 2024. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Beyond Developing People – Bob Emiliani uses the simple analogy of plants, blooms, and pollination applied to the work of managers to help us understand what they must do.
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A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of May 2024. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Lean as Alternative Medicine – Bob Emiliani shares his thoughts on what he believes Taiichi Ohno might think of what Lean has become today and what he might say to
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A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of April 2024. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Strategy Digi-deployment – Bruce Hamilton shares a few potential (and common) pitfalls to avoid when digitizing your strategic deployment plan. Simplifying Lean – Bob Emiliani discusses the problems from
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A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of February 2024. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Introduction to Toyota Kata – Mark Rosenthal introduces Toyota Kata as a way to start to nudge the culture in the direction we want it to go. The Problem
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A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of November 2023. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Understanding Misunderstandings – Bob Emiliani talks about his life work to advance progressive leadership and management. The New Competencies – Christopher R Chapman discusses management competencies, in particular those
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A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of September 2023. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Another Tale from the Past – Mark Rosenthal shares a story that questions whether kaizen events alone, no matter how many or how quickly they were run, would actually create
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