Here’s the latest in an occasional ongoing series I call “A Lean Guy Reads ________”. Today, I’m reading the latest issue of Health Leaders magazine (March/April 2019) whose cover features a number of stories about nursing retention. The lead article…
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 alum, but was considered a “guest” since I graduated 16 years ago from my program and…
I enjoy reading the magazine Inc. for my interests in startups and entrepreneurship. There are often examples and case studies that directly reference Lean thinking or just sound like Lean and Kaizen with another label. There were two articles in…
I was in Canada a few weeks back and two articles from the Globe and Mail newspaper caught my eye – stories from England and Russia. The first was what could be considered a lighthearted story about the excesses of…
The articles from the July/August 2011 issue of Inc. Magazine aren’t online yet, but there are two things I wanted to go ahead and blog about. One article had a very “Like Lean” attitude about employee motivation and the other…
It’s time for a Lean Blog feature I haven’t done in a while…. “A Lean Guy Reads _______”. I’ve done this before with the WSJ, Fortune, and USA Today (click here for past editions). This time, it’s Tuesday’s USA Today…
Some days, it seems the WSJ is a treasure trove of tangentially Lean-related articles. Similar to “blog carnivals,” this is sort of a WSJ carnival for 11 Some of the themes include real “value” versus the perception of it, leadership…
As I was reading the latest issue of FORTUNE (October 13), I had a few Lean thoughts based on a few articles (which I can’t find online at the moment). In the “The Best Advice I Ever Got” feature, it’s…
As I was catching up on my back issues of FORTUNE, I had a few Lean thoughts as I read. In the June 9 edition, the article “Wal-Mart puts the squeeze on food costs” caught my eye. It says: Wal-Mart…
I’ve often done posts titled “A Lean Guy Reads the WSJ” — I would create a link to them, but I’m currently suffering a bit of an internet glitch (can anyone help?) I’m in the UK, but my hotel’s internet…
A few short thoughts from today’s WSJ:‘Headwind’ Blows As Top Executives Navigate Trouble – WSJ.com As I was reading the first article, above, about executives blaming “headwinds” and macroeconomic problems for business woes, I thought, “Sure, there are economic problems,…
I’ve done this before with the WSJ… since I was in Seattle, I saw the Sunday Seattle Times, which had many articles that had some inadvertent (and unsaid) Lean angle (or so I thought). Article 1: Snap goes deadline at…
