Category Archives: lean manufacturing (3)

Over the weekend, I try to catch up on home tasks, and often the lessons I learn there carry forward to the workday. One of my biggest..

Cyril Parkinson was onto something when he postulated in1955 that “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” While this sounds a..

When Stan Davis wrote Future Perfect in 1987 (then called the “book of the decade,” and still a good read), he foresaw a reversal in thinking that..

“What do you do for a living,” a neighbor asks. As I try to explain about GBMP’s attempts to help customers improve productivity and quality, my..

Football season is back in a 2020 sort of way with real players and crowd sound effects, so here is Lean Peeve #2, a post to celebrate. Student Body..

With just 16 days before our 16th Annual Northeast L.E.A.N Conference (by the way the acronym stands for Lead, Enable And Nurture), I’ve decided to..

One summer when I was a kid, my friend Rick and I built a pole vault set-up in my postage- stamp- sized backyard with a plant box (the place where..

With all the gloom and doom of the Coronavirus, the divisive political climate and the Zoom fatigue, this has been a tough summer. Here is a..

Wedged between distant decision-makers and the people who do the work.She is the go-to person for everything: safety, morale, productivity,..

Shortly after my last post, in which I referred to sowing the “seeds of change,” I enlisted the help of my son, Ben, to reseed a particularly..