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How Ford Built an Aligned Team Using ‘Matched Pairs’
Inside a winning strategy for Ford Motor Company's new product development process.
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Selling Water by the River
The most important challenge facing the lean community is that of sustaining both tangible and intangible improvements, says Dan Prock,…
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Art of Lean on Situational Leadership, Part 5: Being an Expert and the D4-S4 Quadrant
To wrap up, Art Smalley gives some lasting impressions and key takeaways from his segmented takes on Situational Leadership. From…
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Why A3 Thinking is the Ideal Problem-Solving Method
How A3 Thinking helps you overcome the most challenging yet vital part of problem-solving, according to Lean Coach David Verble.
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Cooking Up Perfection With a Master Chef
Master chefs often practice elements of lean without any formal recognition of this, says Orry Fiume, citing the words and…
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Six Lessons from the Hyper-Fast Design and Finished Construction of the Sherman Alternate Care Facility
The authors, an architect, and a regional lean manager, share the lean principles that enabled the delivery of both the…
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Art of Lean on Situational Leadership, Part 4: Supportive Style, from Basketball to Toyota
Part four continues the series' trajectory of further contextualizing situational leadership and lean thinking. By picking personal examples from his…
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Show Respect by Exploring Problems With Your Workers
I trust that all of us want to show respect for people, writes Jim Womack, adding: The challenge for those…
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Use Jidoka to Avoid Death by 1000 Cuts
I’ve learned from experience the need for tech teams to adopt jidoka as a basic design consideration: getting it 100%…
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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…
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Art of Lean on Situational Leadership, Part 3: D2-S2 and Coaching
Part two saw Art Smalley discussing Toyota, Taiichi Ohno, and more examples of situational leadership being exemplified in real-time. This…
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Lead With Respect Shares Tangible Practices That Develop Others, Says Author Michael Balle
Michael and Freddy Balle's book Lead With Respect portrays on-the-job behaviors of lean leaders which can be learned through practice. Michael explains…
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