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Jim Womack on “The Machine That Changed the World,” Revisited

Mark Graban - March 10, 2007 0

In this 2007 interview, Jim Womack reflects on The Machine That Changed the World and how its lessons on Lean and Toyota's system are...

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…
Zachary Capen on What Ford and the UAW Really Learned from Japan: Listening, Respect, and a Better SystemFebruary 2, 2026
This post really shows how often we blame the people in a system when the real issue is the system…

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