All posts tagged "Lean"

  • Meeting the Challenges of a Pandemic World
    Meeting the Challenges of a Pandemic World

    The very good news for today is that American manufacturing's ability to respond quickly to new challenges is very much alive and well. Here's Essex Industries’ story on how they successfully pivoted from live to Zoom-based training...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Elon's opening of the Tesla Annual Shareholders Meeting by Steve Jurvetson, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
    Elon Musk on Money, Success, and Leadership

    When asked about the fact that he was now the wealthiest person in the world Musk replied, “How strange. Well, back to work.” Lean leadership is all about understanding that making money is not the primary goal...

    • Posted January 26, 2021
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  • The Pandemic’s Greatest Gifts
    The Pandemic’s Greatest Gifts

    By forcing us to challenge the status quo in many ways, the pandemic has brought organizations some great gifts. Resilience. Creativity. Teamwork. Dedication to the Mission. Communication with Leadership. Great challenges have always brought out the best...

    • Posted December 22, 2020
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  • Nothing for You!
    Nothing for You!

    Why do customers still encounter detachment from work? Negative customer experiences from employees for whom work is drudgery, endured because they need the money. A management team who wants engaged, high-performance employees can fix this with three...

    • Posted October 20, 2020
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  • Lean and the Joy of Work
    Lean and the Joy of Work

    This absolutely delightful thing called joy is so often foreign to our workplaces. I’ve been in far too many organizations where workers are angry, fearful, unhappy, drained of energy. You can see it in their eyes, the...

    • Posted September 23, 2020
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  • Focus is Everything
    Focus is Everything

    Employee disengagement, and a lack of focus, hurts your organization. This lack of focus is also hurting your workers on a personal level. Here are five actions to take to help workers every day and especially during...

    • Posted September 9, 2020
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  • People and Stories Drive Change
    People and Stories Drive Change – Charts, Graphs, and Statistics Don’t

    Leverage the power of the personal and the power of stories to recognize employees for their intelligence and creativity and motivate them to think about ways to improve their own work processes.

    • Posted August 18, 2020
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  • Eliminating Waste in Changeovers
    A Major Profit-Builder: Eliminating Waste in Changeovers

    In today’s hyper-competitive market place, all manufacturers face the challenge of making more products at less cost and higher quality. One of the two major barriers to meeting these twin challenges are non-standardized work processes bloated with...

    • Posted July 14, 2020
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  • Reward, Recognition, and COVID-19
    Reward, Recognition, and COVID-19

    Let's be candid. There exists in all of our minds, during these tumultuous times, various types of fear. These fears sap our energy, our creativity, and our ability to stay focused on the work we are doing....

    • Posted June 9, 2020
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  • Respect, Trust, Candor and the Coronavirus
    Respect, Trust, Candor and the Coronavirus

    In these very perilous and challenging times, with companies and jobs on the line, managing and leading with respect, trust, and candor makes the difference in showing what you and your company truly value.

    • Posted March 26, 2020
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