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My latest article for the Lean Post was just published: “Lean in Japan: An Outsider’s View”. The theme for this article is about how to
How do we ask effective questions to support problem-solving thinking? Asking better questions — and learning to “break the telling habit” has been a passion
After running into the former Chairman of Toyota, Mr. Cho, moments earlier at the Nagoya train station, I arrived at the first stop of the day –
In June before I left Japan for our summer visit back to the United States, I jumped on the bullet train to Nagoya again to spend
Last past week I attended the Lean Coaching Summit in Seattle, Washington. The event was a great opportunity to connect with other Lean thinkers across different
It has been surprising to me since moving to Japan six months ago to learn that very few hospitals and health systems are using Lean
Six months ago exactly, my family arrived in Japan on an 18-24 month assignment. On our first morning in Tokyo, I wrote my first blog
Before I visited the Toyota Kyushu plant to talk with the Toyota TPS Promotion Office manager, I posted on social media to see if anyone had questions
Following our tour of the Toyota Kyushu plant, which I wrote about in an earlier post, my Japanese colleague was able to set up a
Last week I flew down to Japan’s southern island of Kyushu to visit the Toyota Kyushu Miyata plant and have a private conversation with the
When I had my meishi (business cards) made a few months ago, I chose the kanji characters for the word “Intention” as my logo. There
One of the presenters that I enjoyed the most at last month’s Australasian Lean Thinking and Practice Summit was Doug Rickarby from Toyota Australia. He
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