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Turning Downtime into Learning Time
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For over 25 years, the GBMP’s mission has been to help organizations large and small develop their most valuable resource: their employees. Our..
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March 21 , 2020.
About Time
Twenty-twenty marks the 35th anniversary of a remarkable and unfortunately also singular event in my career: In 1985, my employer, United Electric..
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December 27 , 2019.
Talking Turkey
The English language can be confounding. For example, the word turkey is slang for “a person considered inept or undesirable” while the idiom cold ..
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November 27 , 2019.
Customer First Santa
Every December the man in the red suit delivers cheer and presents to millions of happy children around the world. It seems like magic, but a closer..
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December 14 , 2018.
More Than Toast
It’s hard to believe that 2018 is the 20th anniversary for the Toast Kaizen video. After two decades, nearly one hundred and fifty thousand copies..
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September 26 , 2018.
Lean Society
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This quote from George Orwell’s political allegory, Animal Farm, occurred to..
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July 21 , 2017.
Lean Wizards
October was Lean conference month for me: First our own Northeast Lean Conference in Worcester (pronounced “Wustah”), then the international AME..
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October 31 , 2016.
Mistake-Proofing Mistakes
There is a popular lore provided by Shigeo Shingo, that the original name for mistake-proofing (Poka-Yoke) was “fool-proofing” (Baka-Yoke). Shingo..
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December 08 , 2015.
Putting The Pieces Together
Summer’s here, and that means a family vacation to the beach, the boardwalk and the Hamilton’s favorite Pizza place. We all agree that Manco’s pizza..
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July 24 , 2015.
Long-Term Sinking
This past week my organization, GBMP, moved from our home of twenty years at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts. The UMB College of..
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June 30 , 2015.