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Back to Basics at the Lean Transformation Summit
John Shook reflects on the 2009 Lean Transformation Summit
Read article Respect Science, Particularly in a Crisis
The current recession is the fifth in my working career. And it is beginning to feel like the worst. I…
Read article Learning from Managing to Learn
It has been about four months since the release of Managing to Learn, now already in its second printing. I’ve…
Read article GM Veteran Lou Farinola Responds to, “Why hasn’t GM learned from NUMMI?”
John Shook discusses how GM learned from NUMMI with a former GM executive
Read article Coaching and Questions; Questions and Coaching
John Shook discusses the role of questioning
Read article Taking the Wheel as Toyota Skids
As he assumes the presidency of Toyota Motor Corporation after a 25 year apprenticeship, Akio Toyoda embodies the company's Toyota Way…
Read article Constancy of Purpose
The first of Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points is "create constancy of purpose for continual improvement of products and…
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Landscape Forms Cultivates Lean to Fuel Growth Goals
With single-item orders 80% of the time, adopting single-piece flow and cellular production made sense to management at Landscape Forms,…
View case study Gemba-Based Leadership – Not Just for Chief Engineers
John Shook on gemba-based leadership
Read article The Remarkable Chief Engineer
Last week I shared this principle quoted from an unexpected source, the U.S. Marine Leadership Manual: "An individual's responsibility for…
Read article We’re all connected and nobody is in charge
Everyone hates the “matrix”. Not the movie series, of course, but the cross-functional matrix organization. Yet, having searched for the…
Read article Learning to Manage
My colleague John Shook has recently written a wonderful book for LEI about "managing to learn". By this he means…
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