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Long-Term Thinking: What NUMMI Understood and GM Struggled to Practice

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Accountability in Leadership: A GM Flashback on Blame, Fear, and Culture

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If GM Had Learned from NUMMI: An Alternate History of Lean...

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GM Shrinking, Laying Off People, Shutting Down Factories, and Cutting Costs...

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GM Quality Death Spiral 1996 Part 2

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The GM Quality Death Spiral, Part 2: How Blaming Workers and...

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GM Quality Death Spiral 1996 Part 1

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20+ Years Ago at GM: The Quality Death Spiral of Bad...

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2nd Post for the Deming Institute Blog: The Failed “Livonia Philosophy”

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“The reign of the king-leader is gone” at GM? What about...

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GM Spent $90 Billion on Automation — Toyota’s Advantage Was Management

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The Day I Thought I’d Get Fired from “The Old GM”...

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Lessons from NUMMI’s Closing: NPR’s “End of the Line” and What...

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Breaking: GM Dumps NUMMI Partnership with Toyota

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Zachary Capen on The Longer Starbucks Coffee Stopper Is Obviously Waste… Unless It Is NotMarch 2, 2026
I agree! At first glance, the longer stopper did look a lot like a waste. It is so easy to…
Jack Benedict on Before “Just Culture,” There Was NUMMI: Learning Instead of BlamingFebruary 25, 2026
While reading this blog post I found it very interesting how NUMMI is explained. The author discusses that NUMMI results…
William Brew on When “AI Improvement” Adds Waste Instead of Value: A Hotel Valet ExampleFebruary 24, 2026
One takeaway I have from this article is that, as stated, adding technology does not always add value. Adding the…
Zachary Capen on Daily Healthcare Kaizen: Real Examples of Small Improvements That Make a DifferenceFebruary 23, 2026
This post highlights how important daily kaizen practices are in making small improvement so that you don't have to make…
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…

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