
Looking Back: Top 10 Posts from 2016
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
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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

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

Using A3 thinking to coach for personal development In previous posts, I’ve walked through the value of using A3 thinking to coach for personal development

New Book: The Toyota Way to Service Excellence Earlier this summer, Jeff Liker reached out to me to see if I would be interested in

My latest article for the Lean Post titled “Summit Reflections: Knowing What You Need to Improve” was just published! In it, I reflect some questions that

How should I start coaching using the personal A3 process? Many of you have reached out to me after I published the first post in this

A3 thinking for problem-solving is a well-known process in the Lean community, but did you realize that it can be a powerful process for personal

I just spent most of this week unloading boxes of our life from the sea container that just arrived form Japan and the storage unit of everything

I just came back from presenting at the 5th Annual Lean Coaching Summit held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last week. This Summit was the third consecutive

Since the beginning of this year, I’ve become a bit obsessed with collecting Daruma dolls. Before I left Japan in June, I bought nearly 100 Darumas

When I wrote my last post while on the Shinkansen, I knew it would probably be a few weeks until I was able to write

In the previous four posts in this series about my visit to Toyota Memorial Hosptial (TMH) in Toyota City, Japan, last month, I’ve covered topics
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