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Book Review: Agile Kids
This is my first book review on the website. I was contacted and asked to review the ebook. It is a good book and a quick read with great visuals. Name of the Book: Agile Kids Authors: Shirly...
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Real Life Lean
I live in a part of the United States where houses are made of board siding which requires the siding to be painted every 5-7 years. This is new to me because the parts I have lived in prior the...
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More From The Fine Folks At Taylor
About a year ago, when I was merely a “Guest Post”-er, I wrote this little piece about some really interesting things I read about in a book called Guitar Lessons written by the co-founder and namesake...
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GE Appliances Going Lean
I have not been very high on GE as a company. I have dealt with too many command-and-control managers that came from GE and Jack Welch I think is the single most overrated CEO in history. He...
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Controlling the Message
Are politics eating away at the ability of businesses to be competitive? I don’t mean capital P Politics and elections, just cultural office politics. I wonder if we have gotten so good in so many...
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Blog Carnival Annual Roundup 2012 – My Flexible Pencil
At the end of the year, John Hunter does a great job of facilitating an annual roundup of business and lean blogs at Curious Cat Management. The roundup is a review of blogs by other bloggers. This...
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Book Review: The Lean Turnaround
Art Byrne is an execute that has been implementing lean in several companies around the world. He started our with GE and gained experience with Danaher Corp before becoming the CEO of Wiremold where...
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3 Years for Beyond Lean
I can’t believe it. Today is Beyond Lean’s 3rd Anniversary. It has been three years since my first post. The time has gone quickly. Image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net During the...
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Centralized vs. Decentralized
I had the pleasure of being a guest blogger on Karen Wilhelm’s Lean Reflections site. I wrote about the debate between centralizing versus decentralizing functions of a business. Here is the...
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Process of Shaving
If you are a male like me you may hate shaving as much as I did. I saw it as a chore. Something that had to be done because I didn’t want a huge ZZ Top beard. Because I didn’t want to do it, I took...
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Blog Reader Survey: I want to hear about your needs from the blog
Recently, I have been participating in a series of conversations with a small group of other bloggers about how to improve the online lean learning community. We thought it best to start with what you...
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Book Review: Value Stream Mapping
Karen Martin and Mike Osterling are consultants that have been helping companies with seeing their business through a different lens. Karen and Mike have co-authored two books in the past: The Kaizen...
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The Value of Certifications in Our Industry
Today’s post is from a guest blogger. Connie Tolman has a career that has spanned the aerospace, military, medical device and biotechnology industries in Southern California. Her career has been in...
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The Value of Certifications in Our Industry
Today’s post is from a guest blogger. Connie Tolman has a career that has spanned the aerospace, military, medical device and biotechnology industries in Southern California. Her career has been in...
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