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...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleApply 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...
View ArticleHow to Eliminate Waste
As you may have noticed, I’ve been away from my blog for a while. To flex my muscles again, I start with a very good overview about waste elimination, provided to you via Roojoom by Shirley Ronen-Harel...
View ArticleBetter 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...
View ArticleHave 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...
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleAre 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...
View Article7 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 –...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleI Renovated this Site
As you surely have seen, I have updated the outer appearance of this site a little. I wanted to make it simpler. Since finding the right layout and setting up everything, you haven’t heard from me for...
View ArticleJack-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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