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Space Junk

Last weekend in the Nantucket ferry terminal, I passed a defunct phone booth, the ornate wooden kiosk kind that was used twenty years ago to frame a..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, Toast Kaizen, northeast lean conference, 5S, idea systems on August 24 , 2016.

Invisibility

A chance reading recently provided a thought from Henry Thoreau that I think is worth sharing. Thoreau said: “The greatest compliment that was ever..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, process improvement, northeast lean conference, kaizen, respect for people, bruce hamilton, idea systems on August 14 , 2014.

Half Full or Half Empty?

I’ve always felt the need to accentuate the positive, something I think I picked up from my mother. In tense situations she would always interject..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, GBMP, staff meetings, plant tours, bruce hamilton, idea systems, toyota production system on November 08 , 2013.

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