Yearly Archives: 2016

Theories X, Y and Z

2016-03-14T15:45:39-05:00

Bob Dunning, a friend, collaborator on a paper discussing the application of Lean principles to transit planning, and Boeing alumnus, commented on my recent review of Lead With Respect. Bob brought ...

Theories X, Y and Z2016-03-14T15:45:39-05:00

Real Numbers by Jean Cunningham and Orest Fiume

2016-03-11T15:17:33-06:00

Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization will not be the first Lean book in your library, but it is a book you need to fit into your reading ...

Real Numbers by Jean Cunningham and Orest Fiume2016-03-11T15:17:33-06:00

Knowledge Workers in the Lean Enterprise

2016-03-07T15:17:49-06:00

Knowledge workers are workers whose main capital is knowledge. Typical examples may include software engineers, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, scientists, public accountants, lawyers, and academics, whose job is to "think ...

Knowledge Workers in the Lean Enterprise2016-03-07T15:17:49-06:00

In the Lean World is Leadership Dead?

2016-03-02T15:22:58-06:00

A couple of days ago I wrote a post citing Peter Block's article on citizenship.  Without reading the article one can mistakenly gain a perception that Block's position is that ...

In the Lean World is Leadership Dead?2016-03-02T15:22:58-06:00

Lean Citizenship

2016-02-29T15:58:47-06:00

Thanks to my colleague Steve Knapp I came across a 1998 article by Peter Block on the topic of Citizenship.  The thrust of the article was that a shared sense ...

Lean Citizenship2016-02-29T15:58:47-06:00

Challenge Unspoken Assumptions Regarding Problems

2016-02-17T15:29:29-06:00

I observed a great example of a project superintendent seeing beyond an unspoken assumption regarding a problem on the project. The issue being discussed was how the project could minimize safety ...

Challenge Unspoken Assumptions Regarding Problems2016-02-17T15:29:29-06:00

Don’t Be a Bulk Thinking Hero

2016-02-15T15:15:53-06:00

I was in a planning session recently when one of the participants, partially in jest, declared he wanted to request two weeks for certain work because he knew the work ...

Don’t Be a Bulk Thinking Hero2016-02-15T15:15:53-06:00

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

2016-02-12T15:14:22-06:00

The Checklist Manifesto is an argument for the use of checklists to help us manage complexity. As a surgeon Atul Gawande has researched and experienced firsthand how checklists have reduced deaths ...

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande2016-02-12T15:14:22-06:00