Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement

When I talk to organizations about Kaizen, or continuous improvement, there's far too much self-defeating talk, where people say things like:"We're not going to try this Kaizen process because our cul...

19 Jan 20175min

Yesterday, the W. Edwards Deming Institute published the second in my series of three posts for them: "The Failure of "The Livonia Philosophy" at my GM Plant." Read more... http://www.leanblog.org/au...

17 Jan 20176min

In my travels, I often meet people or visit organizations that say something like:"We're doing Lean... we just call it Process Improvement." They have a "Process Improvement" (PI) department, or they...

16 Jan 20175min

http://www.leanblog.org/audio172 StoreSMART is partnering with me on this contest where you can win one of four sets of books, along with a selection of sample supplies that can help you with 5S, vis...

15 Jan 20173min

It's a weight loss program called "Lean 13." It's the everyday use of the word "lean," as in thinner, that has nothing to do with the Lean methodology and the Toyota Production System. They're promisi...

11 Jan 20174min

My favorite book, as I've written about before, is not a "Lean book" -- it's Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J. Wheeler, PhD. It might look like a book about statistics......

9 Jan 20177min

I'm extremely honored that The W. Edwards Deming Institute published my first blog post in a series of three that I've written for them, to be published over the next month or so.The post is titled: ...

6 Jan 20179min

Before Christmas, I was listening to the Dan Le Batard Show and their guest for the day was former NFL player Domonique Foxworth, pictured at left. Foxworth earned an MBA from Harvard Business School ...

4 Jan 20175min