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

Richard Kunst
Aug 29, 20212 min read


start STRATEGIC PLANNING with reflection.
Make your Plan
Work your Plan
MEET YOUR NUMBERS

Richard Kunst
Aug 22, 20211 min read


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

Richard Kunst
Aug 15, 20215 min read


METRICS ARE NECESSARY | but where and what may be reflective of what you want.
Metrics also serve as a powerful way to demonstrate improvement success to people who might otherwise roll their eyes.

Richard Kunst
Aug 15, 20214 min read


“Fitting in” is highly overrated
Here are some lessons I’ve learned during my half-century on this planet:

Richard Kunst
Aug 7, 20214 min read


Know your Business Aura | Strategic Factors Impacting Change
Yes your organization does have an Aura. Know it to manage a successful evolution.

Richard Kunst
Jul 31, 20214 min read


Is your process is like a plate of Spaghetti ??
Cadence being the gait that needs to be observed with your information and communication flow and the repeatability of tasks.

Richard Kunst
Jul 31, 20214 min read


Lean does not start with 5S, here is why.
unless it directly contributes the primary guiding principal (Velocity) it becomes a waste of time, investment and ultimately money.

Richard Kunst
Jul 25, 20214 min read


Knowing your Human Talent to create a Lean Culture
It has been said that the factory of the future will only require 2 occupants, 1 Human and 1 Dog.

Richard Kunst
Jul 10, 20214 min read


Skill Acquisition and Definition: The Dreyfus Model
It is all about Culture Speed of methodology absorption.

Richard Kunst
Jul 10, 20214 min read


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

Richard Kunst
Jun 28, 20214 min read


Ten Tips for Top Managers
Ten Tips for Top Managers

Richard Kunst
Jun 27, 20212 min read


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

Richard Kunst
Jun 19, 20214 min read


Ready to Form, Storm, Norm and Perform?
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..

Richard Kunst
May 30, 20215 min read


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

Richard Kunst
May 23, 20214 min read


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

Richard Kunst
May 16, 20213 min read


Total Productive Maintenance (and more)
This one simple form contains so many treasures of changing and sustaining change in your organization. On the surface it looks like a...

Richard Kunst
Apr 25, 20214 min read


The Beauty of a Well Executed Plan
Meeting a plan is a thing of beauty and should not be accomplished by accident.

Richard Kunst
Apr 4, 20212 min read


How much Empowerment have you granted within your organization?
The best definition of empowerment is “Freedom within Limits”.

Richard Kunst
Mar 27, 20212 min read


KAMISHIBAI CARDS
Kamishibai or also know as “T” cards is a simple check card system which is used for systematically reviewing critical items within the work

Richard Kunst
Mar 21, 20212 min read
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