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Less than two days ago, I filled in my daruma doll’s right eye symbolizing the completion of the book writing process! (Below is the live recording from Monday!). As you...
The countdown is on! I can’t believe that my book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Lessons from Toyota Leader Isao Yoshino on a Lifetime of Continuous Learning will be...
How do you create culture? As I’ve learned from Mr. Isao Yoshino – and from my own experiences leading change in organizations – it happens one person at a time!...
How can we use our creativity – and kindness – to help us move forward into a better future? The latest article that I’ve written for the Lean Post –...
One of the great joys of the past five years has been the unexpected friendship that I’ve developed with Isao Yoshino. I have learned so much from our conversations –...
When my dad was diagnosed with ALS in the fall of 2015 while I was living in Japan, my parents adopted a motto to help them navigate a personal crisis...
It was an exciting week last week for me! Not only was it the five year anniversary of my first meeting with Isao Yoshino in Japan, I announced the cover...
This week marks five years since the first time I met up with Isao Yoshino in Japan! It’s a fitting week to publicly announce my forthcoming book – based on...
Four weeks ago, a few days after we went into COVID-19 “shelter in place” here in Northern California, I looked around my house – that hadn’t been cleaned in two...
Our world has changed forever. We’re all in this together. And we’ll all get through this together. The Japanese saying “Fall down seven times, get up eight”, as represented by...
It’s hard to believe that my latest trip back to Japan was already over a month and a half ago. A lot has changed in our world since then, and...
Virtual collaboration — and adjusting plans — is the theme for this week! It’s amazing the collaboration – and creation – that can happen when people work together, even if...
Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the Lean Transformation Summit in Carlsbad, California. It was the first time that I’d attended the all
As I’ve written about in earlier posts, last spring I led a study trip to the Japanese “5S City” of Ashikaga to learn about how organizations in
Last week Mark Graban published a podcast on his website LeanBlog.org that we recorded recently about how living in Japan has shaped my perspective a Lean thinker and
Last spring I led a study trip to the Japanese town of Ashikaga, which considers itself to be the “5S Mecca of the world”, to
Getting out of the habits of telling and showing up as the “expert” are two of the most important habits to break if you want to
It’s that time of year again for reflection and resetting of goals and intentions -the “Check-Adjust” and “Plan” parts of the Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA) Cycle. If you
Endings, beginnings and reflections 2016 ended with with joy and sadness, with my family coming together to celebrate the holidays and with my father passing
Earlier this year I led a Lean study trip to the Japanese town of Ashikaga, which considers itself to be the “5S Mecca of the
What was the thinking that led up to the development of the Toyota Way in 2001? I asked my friend Mr. Isao Yoshino, a 40-year Toyota
Is your organization fit or flabby? Is your organization fit or flabby? That’s the provocative question that Dan Markovitz asks in his book Building the
What did you learn about Lean in Japan? Many of you have asked me to name my top take-aways about lean, leadership and culture now
Most of you have heard of “5S”, but have you ever heard of an entire city that has rallied around the concepts of 5S with over
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