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Managing to Pitch with PDCA (Pitch-Defend-Catch-Adjust)
John Shook discusses lean thinking in baseball.
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Leadership Q&A: Karl Wadensten, president, VIBCO
From the LEI senior executive series on lean leadership:In the first couple years of its lean transformation VIBCO, Inc. saved over…
Read article Recruiting Creative Ideas
Comparing GM's and Toyota's approach to suggestion systems reveals significant differences — and may help explain GM's recent poor performance.
Read article Managing To Learn in Sloan Management Review
John Shook discusses Managing to Learn in two Sloan Management Review articles
Read article GM Is Bankrupt: Does That Mean GM Managers Are Bad Managers?
John Shook discusses GM's bankruptcy and management
Read article Sailing a Straight Course in a Time of Variances
Recently I spent a day as a lean anthropologist, sitting in the back of the room and observing the behavior…
Read article New Sloan must define new GM
James Womack, founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, writes in Automotive News that the genius of Alfred Sloan…
Read article The Lean Dentist Webinar Follow-Up Questions & Answers
After reviewing all the questions that we couldn’t get to during the webinar with Dr. Sami Bahri, several key themes…
Read article Strategy Deployment In Action: One Executive’s Perspective – Follow up Q & A
Webinar presenters David Brule and Pascal Dennis answer questions from their webinar about strategy deployment on March 12, 2009.
Read article The End of an Era
When General Motors filed for bankruptcy yesterday it marked the end of an era. The first truly modern, manage-by-the-numbers corporation,…
Read article Is Your Technical Person a Technical Problem or a People Problem …?
John Shook discusses the need for both technical and social skills
Read article Following The Toyota Way, For Better Or Worse
The article and audio present an overview of how Toyota is dealing with its worst year since the 1930s. The…
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