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More Than Toast
It’s hard to believe that 2018 is the 20th anniversary for the Toast Kaizen video. After two decades, nearly one hundred and fifty thousand copies..
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September 26 , 2018.
Leader Standard Waste: Part One
Three years ago I wrote a post entitled “The Emperor’s New Huddle Boards,” in which I expressed concern about the trappings of improvement without..
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May 01 , 2018.
Who Cares for the Care Givers?
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.
Celebrity Toast Kaizen
I’m not so sure how I feel about a story I heard this morning of Jim Nantz’s toast visual aid, but it’s so rare that anyone in the public limelight..
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December 18 , 2017.
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.
Lean Wizards
October was Lean conference month for me: First our own Northeast Lean Conference in Worcester (pronounced “Wustah”), then the international AME..
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October 31 , 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.
Space Junk
Last weekend in the Nantucket ferry terminal, I passed a defunct phone booth, the ornate wooden kiosk kind that was used twenty years ago to frame a..
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August 24 , 2016.