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Who Cares for the Care Givers?
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Last month I joined Eric Buhrens, CEO at Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) to host a leadership team from the Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center. They..
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April 13 , 2018.
Why "Everybody, Everyday"?
Plus a big "congratulations" to MassMutual Financial Group of Springfield MA. Allow me to explain...
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April 05 , 2018.
Happy Hollow Lean
Today is a favorite holiday for me, full of make-believe supernatural and candy, and unencumbered for the most part by significance. For this..
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October 31 , 2017.
Back To The Future
Here is an article I wrote ten years ago, recently resurrected from the lost letter file. I can’t remember why I wrote it or for whom. Originally..
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December 22 , 2016.
How to Rework a Charlie Brown Tree
Last weekend, as I forked over $70 for a “live” Christmas tree, I had a flashback to a very different experience when I was still a kid. My family..
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December 21 , 2016.
Summer Memory
I was lucky that the first boss I ever had (at age 13) had much to teach at a point when I had much to learn. Chris M. was a brilliant but illiterate..
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September 16 , 2016.
Peripheral Discoveries
The following post is inspired by The Teachings of Don Juan, an anthropological novel from the 1960’s written by Carlos Castaneda chronicling his..
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August 16 , 2016.
Profitless Part Proliferation
I wrote a post a little more than five years ago about Variety Reduction Program (VRP), an amazing but little known product design optimization tool...
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June 27 , 2016.
Eye of the Beholder
Many moons ago when I was just getting started on my lean journey, I visited a large automotive supplier to benchmark pull systems. My own factory..
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May 20 , 2016.
Indefinite Postponement
Today’s post is inspired by the politically charged gobbledygook we call presidential primaries. This battle of principles turned battle of wills..
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April 20 , 2016.