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The Successful, Continuous Beat of Daily Management 

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The Successful, Continuous Beat of Daily Management 

By Josh Howell and Joe Seestadt

May 6, 2025

Daily management isn’t just for the shop floor. In this edition of The Management Brief, Josh Howell and Joe Seestadt explore how a simple yet powerful system enables teams in any industry—healthcare, services, or manufacturing—to know where they stand each day, solve problems in real time, and align daily work with strategic

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Josh Howell, LEI president, explores the topic of daily management with Joe Seestadt, Director Lab Outreach for Bronson Healthcare and a faculty member and coach with LEI. Joe trained as an industrial engineer and worked in manufacturing, and has now spent some 18 years in healthcare. He was instrumental in developing the Cleveland Clinic’s daily management system, which has been recognized across the industry. Joe is unique in that he is both a lean guide to others as well as an owner and user of a system and concepts that he’s helping individuals grasp as they try to transform their own organizations. He describes the importance of daily management as having the ability to know every day if you are ahead or behind, having a mechanism to solve problems at a daily beat in any type of operation (healthcare, service, or manufacturing), and as a means to bring strategy/hoshin kanri to fruition. 


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Joshua Howell is president and executive team leader at the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI). For over a decade, he has supported individuals and organizations with lean transformations for improved business performance. As a coach, he helps people become lean thinkers and practitioners through experiential learning, believing such an approach can…

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About Joe Seestadt

Joe Seestadt’s mission is to add value to organizations through lean deployment and leadership development. He is experienced and confident in navigating the dynamic waters of change management, cost reduction, and growth planning. Mid-level managers love him because he can relate to both the upward and downward pressures they endure…

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