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Each year, as led by John Hunter, many of the lean bloggers contribute to the Carnival Annual Roundup. Last year I reviewed three bloggers, and Jon Miller reviewed mine. This year I will be reviewing four bloggers, one each day until Thursday. Today I am starting the man who started

At the moment, I am teaching a Lean Experience at our Center for a group of mixed companies that include retail, transportation, micro-brews, and more. Recently, we delivered a private session at the company where lean blogger Matt Wrye works. Matt converted several of his lessons from the class into

Do you have problems in your organization? Does everyone agree on what they are? Teams worry about problem solving processes and problem solving skills. But if they can’t even agree on what would be a problem and what wouldn’t be, then what’s the point? Is the report or order being

I recently applied to refinance a mortgage. Of course, bad mortgages were the tracks which the economic train derailed from. New regulations are inevitable when that happens as elected officials want to show their constituents that they fixed it. I’ve gotten to see some of those new regulations and did

This morning I am delivering a presentation for Lehigh University’s Iaccoca Institute. We will have many people from different organizations within the Lehigh Valley. The presentation is titled The 25 Problems Problem, or The 25 Straws that Broke the Manager’s Back. The topic is how organizations have to rethink problem

I have a new post published on Assembly Magazine. See the full article on that site. Every corporation wants to be innovative. But, being innovative is not a behavior. It’s not something on your to-do list between picking up dry cleaning and writing performance reviews. Innovation is the by-product of

  If you were to calculate the actual time lost, meetings that don’t start on time is perhaps one of the single biggest generators of waste in organizations today. A meeting that starts 5 minutes late for 4 people waiting for 1 other person wastes 20 minutes. If it’s a

We’re happy to see that Dennis Pawley, our co-founder of the Lean Learning Center, was inducted to the Industry Week Hall of Fame. For those who have worked for him, few leaders have had more of an impact on an organization than Denny. He is a personal hero to many,

I am thankful for many things. One is the many great reviews that The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean has received on Amazon.com Here are some of the highlights: “…one of very few books on lean enterprise on the market today that really, really “gets it”…” – Thomas Jackson “…it’s one

How do I communicate with my organization? This is a challenge for any leader particularly as their organization grows. Leaders try to communicate through their staff to the rest of the organization, but the message is often distorted or diluted. Leaders try to communicate through lots of one-on-one conversations, but