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Summer Kata Video: Example Coaching Cycle
The five Coaching Kata questions are just the main headings for a coaching cycle, and prompts to help reveal how…
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The Story of an Error
As a followup to his popular article from earlier this summer about lean profit-sharing plans, Orry Fiume delves deeper. He…
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Ask Art: Is there a conflict between automation/IT and lean?
An oft-heard debate in lean circles revolves around automation and IT. Do IT/automation complement lean? Or do they clash with…
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Book Value: The Mental ABC’s of Pitching
"With both the All-Star Game and our Lean Coaching Summit approaching, I got to thinking about ways that non-lean books…
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Our hoshin plan failed. What do we do now?
Dear Gemba Coach: How do we deal with hoshin kanri when things don’t work out as planned?
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You can do a lot by doing a few things
"Developing a good strategy and actually executing it is really hard," writes Leslie Barker. "What I didn’t fully realize was…
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“Do I have to be a team leader for the rest of my life?”
In this reprint of his latest e-letter, LEI Chairman and CEO John Shook reflects on the powerful lessons in the…
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At his talk at the Lean Transformation Summit earlier this year, and at conferences since then, including Industry Week and…
Read article Will a real andon system bring the factory to a full stop?
Dear Gemba Coach: What would happen if we practiced andon for real – wouldn’t the factory simply stop?
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Want to Be a Better Leader and Coach? Listen to Yourself
Conduct this simple two-step analysis to learn whether you’re practicing the communication behavior that encourages a culture of engagement and…
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Manager-Employee Communication: What Neuroscience Tells Us
Delving deeper into how humans’ innate social need to be connected and accepted explains why and how a managers’ interactions…
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Leaders’ Actions Speak, but Their Talk Matters Too
How leaders talk to employees can either help or hurt efforts to create and sustain a culture of engagement and…
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