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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.
Silver Toaster Spirit
Bob C. was a front-line employee with twenty-five years experience. His day was spent operating a machine that stripped and terminated leadwire..
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August 13 , 2018.
Excelize Me: 4 Myths & 4 Realities of Racing to Automate
On the eve of our celebration of the American Revolution, here’s a post about another revolution: Industry 4.0.
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July 03 , 2018.
Who is Accountable?
Leader Standard Waste Part Two (Did you miss Part One? Read it here.)
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May 17 , 2018.
Leader Standard Waste: Part One
Three years ago I wrote a post entitled “The Emperor’s New Huddle Boards,” in which I expressed concern about the trappings of improvement without..
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May 01 , 2018.
First Lady of Adult Literacy
At the Gemba: Avelino Coehlo and Ines Chiodo show the First Lady a cause and effect problem solving method.
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April 19 , 2018.
Who Cares for the Care Givers?
Last month I joined Eric Buhrens, CEO at Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) to host a leadership team from the Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center. They..
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April 13 , 2018.
Rosie the Robot
Speaking at the 2003 Shingo Conference, Guy Briggs, General Manager of North American operations for General Motors lamented,
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November 30 , 2017.
Happy Hollow Lean
Today is a favorite holiday for me, full of make-believe supernatural and candy, and unencumbered for the most part by significance. For this..
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October 31 , 2017.
Tools or Culture?
With our annual Northeast LEAN Conference just a few days away, I want to relate a personal story about the theme of this year’s conference,
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September 14 , 2017.
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.
The Final Frontier
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first US astronaut to journey to the “final frontier.” Atop a Mercury rocket, Shepard launched into a..
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June 05 , 2017.
Babel
I grew up in a small manufacturing company where nine different languages were spoken. English was the language of managers, office workers and some..
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March 20 , 2017.
Cartwheels
Most often when we think of a wheel, it’s in the context of transportation, one of the more obvious and ever-present of the 7 wastes. In fact, the..
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January 31 , 2017.
Back To The Future
Here is an article I wrote ten years ago, recently resurrected from the lost letter file. I can’t remember why I wrote it or for whom. Originally..
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December 22 , 2016.
How to Rework a Charlie Brown Tree
Last weekend, as I forked over $70 for a “live” Christmas tree, I had a flashback to a very different experience when I was still a kid. My family..
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December 21 , 2016.
A few of my favorite....books
During a recent Tea Time with The Toast Dude webinar, I shared a few of my favorite books. These are the books that I recommend to students of Lean..
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December 06 , 2016.
Caramel Corn Kaizen
Holiday shopping last week at one of my favorite food places, Johnson’s Popcorn, I came upon a scene reminiscent of our Lean training video Toast..
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December 01 , 2016.