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5 Lessons Learned from Failure
Glenn Llopis wrote and interesting leadership article at Forbes titled 5 Things Failure Teaches You About Leadership some time ago. It is uncanny how often general leadership articles seem to underscore Lean Principles and Lean Leadership. The article is worth reading … Continue reading
Team Involvement: Just Half of This Equation
The level of involvement in the change process for the operator on the floor has been an ongoing issue for years. The operators are less likely to take ownership or even accept the new idea as a solution. On the … Continue reading
Posted in Change Management
Tagged Business, change management, continuos improvement, leadership, lean, lean manufacturing, Management, Organizational Change, PDCA
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Simply Classic 5-Why’s
It’s a cold and rainy night in late October. You hurry out to your car in an effort to keep dry and because you are running late. You are not too wet as you get in and put your key … Continue reading
Posted in Lean Leadership Classics
Tagged 5 Whys, continuos improvement, lean, lean manufacturing, Root cause analysis
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Classic Lean: The 5-Why Root Cause Analysis
The top 3 classic Lean Leadership posts of 2012 were all about 5-Why’s. I’ve decided to run these in the order in which they were originally posted rather than ranking these three. This post generated quite a few comments which … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 Whys, continuos improvement, leadership, lean, lean manufacturing
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#4 – 2 Reasons to Do a Cause & Effect Diagram
The #4 Classic Lean Leadership post is a tool commonly used in Lean Six Sigma problem solving. That tool is the Cause & Effect (aka Fishbone) Diagram. You’ll notice that the illustration is a hand drawn C&E on a white … Continue reading
Classic #5 – Change & the Pareto Principle
The Lean Leadership Classic #5 is Change Management and the Pareto Principle: This blog has been looking at change implementation which is a skill you need to be a successful leader in nearly any arena. We have already explored the 8 … Continue reading
Kanban at Home
As you may already know, Kanban cards are used to indicate the need to replenish inventory. They are a good tool to help minimize batch sizes and inventory. Here is an example of using Kanban at home. Hopefully most readers … Continue reading
Posted in Lean Manufacturing
Tagged continuos improvement, Kanban, lean, lean manufacturing
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Today’s Standardization….
Today’s standardization…is the necessary foundation on which tomorrow’s improvements will be based. If you think “standardization” as the best you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow – you get somewhere. But if you think of standards … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged continuos improvement, Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, leadership, lean, lean manufacturing, Organizations, quotes, Standards
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Top 5 Plus 1
Today brings the first installment of our review of the top Lean Leadership blogs. We’ll start with the top new posts of 2012. It’s the top 5 plus 1 because we will look at the my top 5 plus the … Continue reading
Posted in Top 2012 Blogs
Tagged 5 Whys, change management, continuos improvement, Root cause analysis
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