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How Early Adoption of Process Behavior Charts Might Have Transformed Lean...

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100 Years of Shewhart’s Control Charts: Why They Still Matter for...

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Learning Process Behavior Charts and the More Difficult Challenge of Unlearning...

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Process Behavior Charts: A Better Way to Use Metrics Without Overreacting

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Why Leaders Lose Sleep Over Metrics–and How Process Behavior Charts Fix...

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Line Charts vs. Column Charts: Which Works Better for Lean Metrics?

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What’s Demoralizing? The Colors on a Chart or Not Improving the...

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A table displaying performance metrics for four sites over a year, with each month color-coded to indicate performance relative to targets. Green cells indicate meeting or exceeding targets, while red cells indicate underperformance. The table includes columns for trend and target values for each site.

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Why Red-Green Charts Mislead Leaders: Understanding Variation the Deming and Wheeler...

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William Brew on Ray Zinn on Learning from Mistakes — and Why “Fail Fast, Fail Often” Misses the PointFebruary 10, 2026
I love how this post talks about why "fail fast, fail often" can be misleading. The blog states that the…
Mark Graban on When 5S Goes Wrong: A Funny but Painful Lesson in Bad Lean Office PracticesFebruary 9, 2026
Thanks for sharing that example, Zachary. A checklist should indeed be a helpful tool, not a burden.
Zachary Capen on When 5S Goes Wrong: A Funny but Painful Lesson in Bad Lean Office PracticesFebruary 9, 2026
This post and the video are funny yet relatable in the ive seen similar things happen kind of way. What…
Jack Benedict on Why Public Address Announcements Aren’t a Substitute for ManagementFebruary 4, 2026
While reading this blog post I got to understand the argument of how "top of the hour conditioning" announcements projected…
William Brew on Gemba Walks, Daily Improvement, and the Leadership Behaviors That Make Kaizen PossibleFebruary 3, 2026
A takeaway I have from this blog post is that for Kaizen and Gemba walks to work effectively, the leaders…

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