Our Condo Maintenance Guy Gets the Point of 5S and Maximizing his Productivity
I got onto the elevator in the lobby of our condo building one day last week. Our building's maintenance guy was…
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A Toyota Leader on Misunderstandings About the Toyota Production System
Thanks to Pablo Alvarez Flores, who posted this video on LinkedIn with an invitation for me to share my comments…
Highlights from our Lean Event Tour at Toyota Part 1 on Our Symposium on Learning…
Last week was our first "Symposium on Learning Organizations" where we brought together 40 people with diverse…
Telling Dentists or Patients What to Do or Evoking Reasons for Change? Which is…
In this post, I talk about my dental practices "need" to get Lean, my need to floss, and some of the tactics that…
Major League Baseball Works on Standardizing the Ball… For What Purpose?
Back in 2014, I wrote an article for The Lean Post:
"Standardization is a Countermeasure, Never the Goal"
I'm a…
What Books on #Lean and TPS Are Sold at the Toyota Museum in Nagoya?
It's Monday morning in Nagoya, Japan as I write this. I'm still jet-lagged and up early, so here's a blog post…
If You React to Every Blip in the Metrics, Then Nothing is a Priority? How much…
Here's another post on the theme of performance metrics, as I'm talking about next week at Lean Startup Week (see…
Podcast #290 – @EricRies: From #Lean to #LeanStartup to #TheStartupWay
Joining me again for episode 290 is a three-time guest, Eric Ries. When we first talked, in episode 115 six years…
How Toyota Gets Organizations Started with TPS Learning by doing, solving…
Last week, I mentioned it was the 25th anniversary of TSSC -- formerly known as the Toyota Supplier Support Center…
My Webinar Recording: Standardize What Makes Sense… Then Engage Everybody in…
Today at 3 PM, I'm doing a webinar at the invitation of the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council, as part of…
[Updated] Texas Rangers’ 3B Adrian Beltre Ejected for 5S or Standardized…
Update: See the end of the post with some photos I took at the game yesterday where Beltre got his 3000th career…
Is Calling People “Concrete Heads” the Most Effective Lean Change…
When did the term "concrete head" start getting thrown around in Lean circles? Do people still use this label…
Real Productivity Improvement vs. Pressuring Workers; Easier vs. Suboptimizing
When I was in England on vacation recently, I saw this column in the Financial Times:
Listen to your employees and…
#TBT: Looking Back at Taiichi Ohno’s Book: Lean, Layoffs, Henry Ford, and…
Thanks to my Amazon Kindle app on my iPad, I get to carry much of my book collection with me.
Sometimes, while…
Early Days of Lean in Veterinary Medicine?
Last Friday morning, I partnered with Chip Ponsford, DVM, a doctor of veterinary medicine, to give an introductory…
Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model, Part 2: Problem Solving & Standardization
Yesterday, I wrote Part 1 of this post on the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model.
Part 1 covered the left hand…
Maybe We Should Call it “The Many Whys” Instead of “The Five…
There’s no magic about the number five. I’ve seen some people write that five is somehow a “magic number.” No,…
Fighting Against “The Way We’ve Always Done It” – Before…
Through our practice of Lean, we're looking at processes and our management system, looking to identify waste and…