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You learn through solving problems, failing, reflecting on failure, and adjusting course. That quote sounds like something from Deming or Toyota. But, no, that’s from…

by John Shook

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The Post-COVID-19 Reboot: Safe, Smart Steps for Restarting Production

GE Appliances and Herman Miller share lessons learned on opening manufacturing operations during the Covid-19 crisis. They share how their companies with deep lean experience have responded…

by Scott Bacon, Rich Calvaruso , Steve Michalak and Chris Shier

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How to Develop and Execute New Strategies for the New Era in Business

These times demand a new way of looking at business strategy because the way we worked before the pandemic probably won’t work in the post-pandemic…

by Mark Reich

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Lean Digital Transformation

Discover how the application of lean principles can improve entire corporate ecosystems to deliver digital services and products that customers love at scale and at…

by Bruno Guicardi

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4 Types of Problems: The Keys to Better Organizational Problem Solving

Join Art Smalley for this important, eye-opening webinar and learn why settling on a favorite problem-solving technique or two is a big mistake. Art will…

by Art Smalley

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Two Giants, Two Communities, One Lasting Thing

In this graceful elegy of the impact of two pioneers who recently passed away, John Shook says: "Ezra and Norm belonged to adjacent communities –…

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Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?

The Cleveland Clinic's lean management and operating system helped it handle the challenges arising from the pandemic. Here are several key principles they learned that…

by John Shook and Lisa Yerian, MD

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The Lean Dentist Webinar Follow-Up Questions & Answers

After reviewing all the questions that we couldn’t get to during the webinar with Dr. Sami Bahri, several key themes emerged, such as lean leadership…

by Sami Bahri

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Lean Transformational Leadership Webinar - Follow-up Q & A and Reading List

During the Transformational Leadership webinar, many of you asked for the list of related books and articles that presenter Jim Luckman cited. He has provided…

by Jim Luckman

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How Respect for People Animates the Lean Spirit

Practicing respect is an animating force of lean leadership that colors how one coaches and develops people. This roundup of articles from our archives shares…

by Tom Ehrenfeld

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Once More: What is Strategy Deployment, and Why Should You Care?

Strategy deployment helps keep lean practitioners focused on the prize—creating value for the customer, says Pascal Dennis in the foreword to his Getting the Right…

by Pascal Dennis

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Avoiding Dashboard Wallpaper

Build a system of dashboards up and down the organization, says Leslie Barker. Connect them so ideas flow upward and support flows to the idea.…

by Leslie Barker

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Want Better Employees? Be a Better Employer.

Every nation in the world is on a quest to create more jobs. As they should be. But, we don’t want just “jobs.” We want…

by John Shook

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A Consciousness of Reality

There are countless cases of lean thinking being applied masterfully with the word lean (or the Toyota Production System) nowhere in sight, writes John Shook,…

by John Shook

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Learning From The Sensei Way at Work

Seek perfection by cultivating a daily discipline of mindfulness, whether in lean practice or Buddhist training, writes John Shook in his foreword to a new…

by John Shook

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Managing the Work from Startup to Scaleup

How one company tapped lean thinking and practice to design its business management system — and as a countermeasure to “big company disease.”

by Michael Ballé and Nicolas Chartier

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A New Era of Jidoka: How ChatGPT Could Alter the Relationship between Machines, Humans, and their Minds

An exploration of how artificial intelligence will impact how people will work suggests exciting possibilities and challenges for human development.

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Becoming the Change: New Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare

To successfully lead an organizational transformation, you and other leaders must embark on your own personal transformation. The challenge for senior executives is to move…

by Kim Barnas and John Toussaint