Lean Thoughts

Have you Ever ... ? Answer honestly to yourself.

Success relies on respect for people … but what does that actually mean?

For Lean Culture, Consider a rock-and-roll band. To excel at making good music the band must have ...

Annual Strategic Budget Thought Starters

Birth, Death and that gap in between is your "Gift of Time" to us.

Make your Plan Work your Plan MEET YOUR NUMBERS

The less wasteful a company is, the more profitable - assuming, of course, decent product

Metrics also serve as a powerful way to demonstrate improvement success to people who might otherwise roll their eyes.

Here are some lessons I’ve learned during my half-century on this planet:

Yes your organization does have an Aura. Know it to manage a successful evolution.

Cadence being the gait that needs to be observed with your information and communication flow and the repeatability of tasks.

unless it directly contributes the primary guiding principal (Velocity) it becomes a waste of time, investment and ultimately money.

It has been said that the factory of the future will only require 2 occupants, 1 Human and 1 Dog.

It is all about Culture Speed of methodology absorption.

COVID-19 has spawned its own vocabulary. “Physical distancing","super spreaders" and “elbow bump” have all come to mean very specific...

Ten Tips for Top Managers

Richard-San, why are you taking such a simple concept, which is a natural human attribute based and developing a complex training model?...

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel of a post-Covid world … so we need to get ready for yet another society shift..

There are a plethora of Leadership books in print, and more are invading the marketplace constantly. Ultimately Leadership remains a...

A common conflict in business is doing whatever it takes to satisfy the customer (damn the costs) or maximize profitability (damn service)