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On a recent trans-Pacific flight, I read read a book written by a Japanese business leader named Hiroshi Tsukakoshi called “Tree Ring Management: Take the Long Term View and Grow
This is the final part in my recent series of posts about my visit to Nagoya in June to talk with Isao Yoshino about his experiences as a Toyota leader
During my visit Nagoya in June, Isao Yoshino and I spent many hours talking about leadership and Lean/TPS in Japan. Yoshino-san is a retired 40-year Toyota executive who was one of
Back in Tokyo! After nearly two months back in the United States to visit family and friends, and for work purposes such as coaching and learning, I arrived back in
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 bring intention to our experience
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 of mine since I deeply
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 – the Toyota Commemorative Museum of
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 the day with Isao Yoshino,
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 industries and share our thinking about
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 or the Toyota Production System
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 post to document my intentions for
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 for me. I was able
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