Do Your Job! – Good Direction?
fxtqkaih2016-02-08T15:14:54-06:00This is one of those signs that catches your eye as you pass it, which is clearly the intent for the players for the University of New Hampshire Wildcats as they ...
The High-Velocity Edge by @StevenJSpear
fxtqkaih2016-02-05T15:52:47-06:00How fast can your enterprise discover problems and solve them? The message in The High-Velocity Edge is very clear. Enterprises that outperform their competitors, often by wide margins, are learning ...
The Road to Character by David Brooks
fxtqkaih2016-01-29T16:14:46-06:00This is not an explicitly Lean book, however it offers lessons for the Lean thinker. Lean thinking requires that individuals act to the benefit of the entire process of value ...
Pull Versus Push Planning
fxtqkaih2016-01-29T13:00:04-06:00"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra One of the more challenging practices for people in ...
Lean and Human Achievement
fxtqkaih2016-01-27T16:15:57-06:00I came across a quote that caught my attention while reading an article about creating an artificial intelligence (AI) as fast as the human brain. A researcher on the project ...
Management Lessons From a Spider
fxtqkaih2016-01-25T16:40:30-06:00Fascinating story about social spiders at http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160122-meet-the-spiders-that-have-formed-armies-50000-strong. The people studying these spiders identified tolerance (for each other), prey size, rough weather, and web geometry as the key drivers of social spider. ...
Big-to-Small Strategy for Growth is Bulk Thinking
fxtqkaih2016-01-20T16:49:50-06:00A November/December Chief Executive magazine article identified an increasing trend of large companies acquiring small companies as a means of renewing growth. The "new approach" increases large companies' exposure to ...
Small Mistakes Have Large Consequences
fxtqkaih2016-01-18T16:13:39-06:00A couple of weeks ago many flights leaving Boston were delayed up to an hour because the hoses supplying planes with potable water had frozen and planes had to be ...
“On the Mend” by John Toussaint and Roger A. Gerard
fxtqkaih2016-01-15T16:19:18-06:00On the Mend, Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Loves and Transform the Industry is the story of a Lean transformation by ThedaCare, a healthcare system based in Wisconsin. The book provides stories ...
Performance Message from Steven Spear at LCI Congress 2015
fxtqkaih2016-01-13T16:06:58-06:00Reviewing my notes from October's Lean Construction Institute Annual Congress I came across the following point Steven Spear made during his breakout session that ought to be printed and fastened ...