Tag: Sports

Here is a post from today's date, October 28, from last year. Organizations get in trouble when they copy a Lean tool or method and they don't have the entire system and mindset in place. It's a Catch 22 -- we want to learn from others...

...this WSJ article caught my attention: "The Coach Who Won't Leave the Locker Room." The sub headline is "Why Carolina Panthers' Ron Rivera has become obsessed with integrating himself into his players' personal workspace." An NFL coach is at "the gemba" during a game, of course...

Many of you don’t care about football, but you might find it interesting, as I did, to learn that Northwestern’s defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz is apparently a fan of Kaizen...

And the idea of knowing why... again that's an old desire. It's not just a recent discovery of Simon Sinek and the outstanding book Start with Why (my friends at Gemba Academy have a podcast interview with him coming soon). Why are we doing something? Why are we starting this company? That's an old tale... are you breaking rocks or building a cathedral?

Many of you might not care, but it's football season. Major college football starts tomorrow night and the NFL kicks off their season next...

I love what I do and I travel a lot... the travel can sometimes be a drag, such as last Monday's flight delays with...

The Wall St Journal loves writing about how "Just In Time" (JIT) is a risky inventory strategy. See my past posts about how the...

My wife and I were in Boston over the weekend, as it was her fifth reunion from her MIT master's program. I'm also an...

Following up my earlier post about the "Patriot Way..." During her halftime extravaganza (video), Katy Perry had a silver strap around her wrist, attached to the microphone....

Earlier this month, for the College Football Playoff championship game, I wrote about "Lessons from the Football Coaching and Leadership Styles of the Oregon...

Note: Today is the fifth anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Russell Maroni's journal from his volunteer work there, including some Lean concepts he employed,...

Organizations try to copy each other all the time. It doesn't always work. Manufacturing: A plant manager visits another factory and sees neatly organized tools...