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Lessons in Lean: The Lean Formula

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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Have said many times that lean is simple but not easy. Although the concepts are fairly easy to understand, putting them into practice requires such a deep level of learning, discipline, and reprogramming of the way people think that few are able to do it successfully. The lean formula that can be used to drive transformation of an organization is as follows:. CLEAR and CONSISTENT PURPOSE. The components of the formula are as follows:. CLEAR and CONSISTENT PURPOSE:. Knowing the ga...

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Lessons in Lean: Is it Too Easy to Fire People?

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Sunday, July 19, 2015. Is it Too Easy to Fire People? I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies. 8221; – Lawrence Bossidy. Ow effective is your hiring process? How do you know? If it was difficult or impossible to fire people after you hired them, would it change your process? Elements of Effective Hiring. The elements of an effective hiring process that are often missing include the following:. Altho...

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Lessons in Lean: July 2015

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Sunday, July 26, 2015. What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. 8221; – W. Edwards Deming. The most common application of catchball is a series of discussions that take place between leaders at different levels of the organization to assure objectives are understood, aligned, and achievab...

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Lessons in Lean: April 2015

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Sunday, April 26, 2015. Lean Leadership and Systems Thinking. Ne aspect of lean that often gets overlooked is the depth of systems thinking required to be successful. For a variety of reasons, people like to jump into the more visible and concrete elements of lean – like dashboards or problem-solving – without clearly understanding the organizational elements that are necessary to support and sustain continual improvement. Posted by Gregg Stocker. Links to this post. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Lean is about...

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Lessons in Lean: May 2014

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Sunday, May 4, 2014. Simple Formulas Are Nice But They Don't Work. Fortune Magazine recently published a one-page article entitled. 5 Ways to Stay Ahead of Rising Costs. The article presents five easy. Below are the five ideas presented in the article, along with my thoughts about each. Monitor the Use of Items:. Of all the ideas presented in the article, this is the one that’s probably applied the most and resulted in the least amount of improvement in organizations. Although it’s the ea...I’ve se...

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Lessons in Lean: Why People Don't Develop

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Sunday, July 5, 2015. Why People Don't Develop. 8220;If we do not give people accurate feedback based on real behavior they are not growing and we are not respecting them. The job of a leader is not to put them in positions to fail, but to put them in challenging positions where they must work hard to succeed and still see how they could have been even better. “. 8211; Akio Toyoda. Over the years, I’ve found many reasons for the lack of ability to provide effective feedback for team member developm...

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Lessons in Lean: September 2014

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Sunday, September 14, 2014. Creating a Continuous Improvement Culture Requires More Than Logic. Here are very few people in business who would argue with the value of continual improvement. Whether following the principles of lean or not, leaders regularly talk about the importance of improving processes, products, and services. Why, then, are some organizations significantly better at driving and sustaining continual improvement than others? It Takes More than Logic. Applying the PDSA cycle in a busines...

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Lessons in Lean: Innovation for the Sake of Innovation

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Sunday, August 2, 2015. Innovation for the Sake of Innovation. Our whole company is founded on the principle that there is something very different that happens with one person, one computer. 8221; – Steve Jobs. The May issue of Fortune Magazine. Here we go again. 8211; another management fad destined for the six-sigma scrap heap. Innovation Doesn’t Guarantee Success. Person to stay focused and find solutions. I can’t help but think that the same thing will occur within many of the companies listed...

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Lessons in Lean: Breaking Down Silos

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Sunday, July 26, 2015. What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. 8221; – W. Edwards Deming. The most common application of catchball is a series of discussions that take place between leaders at different levels of the organization to assure objectives are understood, aligned, and achievab...