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The Mythology Of Management Seems To Start in First Grade

Today I present a post by Mike Stoecklein. Thank you to Mike that he alows me to republish this here. I still remember some things from when I was in kindergarten.  My teacher was Mrs. Sears.  We took...

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Do You Listen to Your Own Advice?

This Wednesday, I was fighting against my bicycle. Half of the distance to work I had the feeling to drive uphill. What went wrong? Flashback to exactly two months ago.Click To Tweet Maybe you remember...

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Apply for the Lean Beyond Award 2014

Do you apply Lean (or Agile) beyond business? Is your household following Lean (or Agile) principles? Do you blog about it? Then you can win the “Lean Beyond Award 2014.” This is what a winner of the...

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Better Quit those Rat RACIS

Hopefully, you have not experienced situations like the following very often in your life (“Bob” is the son, genders in that example are arbitrary): Dad to mom: Bob has not done his homework well. Mom...

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Have You Applied for the Lean Beyond Award?

Do you apply Lean (or Agile) beyond business? Is your household following Lean (or Agile) principles? Do you blog about it? Then you can win the “Lean Beyond Award 2014.” This is what a winner of the...

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Happy New Year: Doing Less But Better

Happy New Year to all my readers. Today I want to share a presentation I found on slideshare. It’s not exactly from the Lean world but anyhow it is a good inspiration to start a new year. A tip...

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Are You Getting Depressed by Lean?

When you browse through Lean Management pages on the internet, you may have seen it yourself: reports about small success rates and comments about misunderstood Lean leading to bad consequences. From...

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7 Simple Empowerment Hacks

I have been away from this blog for a while. One of the reasons was that I was in the final rounds of writing a book together with Shirly Ronen-Harel (author of “Agile Kids”):  “The Coaching Booster –...

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The Two Ugly Faces of Waste

Recently, while as was standing with my bike at a red traffic light, I had time for some thoughts about waste. I did not think about any special type of waste.[1] Just the word “waste” itself was what...

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Jack-o’-Lantern, Common Sense, and Lean

Often I hear people say “Lean is great, it is common sense practically applied.” I usually ignore this, because you could not say a lot about Lean which is more wrong than this statement. As a rule of...

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