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Accountability Board for Hight performing Lean Teams

Visual Management of Decisions With The Accountability Board

From Conference Rooms to Accountability Boards: Evolving Meetings in Lean Management In the early 2000s, I worked at Steelcase, moving between roles as a Value Stream Manager and a coach within the...

Lean Tools, Problem-Solving

Visual management tool to see safety through different angles

Beyond The Safety Cross

Visual Management: Turning Information into Action In Lean organizations, communication is more than words. It is about making information visible, understandable, and actionable. Visual management...

Waste Reduction, Workplace Organization

Daily Process Management to Measure, Analyze, and Improve

Process Understanding At a Glance

A Simple Visual Tool to Help Frontline Teams See and Improve Process Performance Frontline teams often struggle to see how their processes behave over time. Data exists, but it is usually buried in...

Lean Tools, Process Optimization

Kanban for Leader standard work checklist ensuring flow of tasks.

Leader Standard Work and Personal Kanban

Turning Personal Chaos into a Pull System: How Type C Kanban Transformed My Leadership Work Twenty years ago, I was serving as a value stream manager in a large manufacturing organization. My role...

Lean Tools, Lean Leadership

Leader Standard Work Check List to Identify Defects and Reflect

A Closer Look at Leader Standard Work

Leader Standard Work: How Consistency and Discipline Drive Organizational Excellence In my decades of experience in manufacturing and healthcare, one principle has consistently separated good...

Lean Leadership

Leader standard work checklist ensuring clarity and sustained performance.

Why Leader Standard Work Matters for Effective Leadership

Introduction: The Case for Leader Standard Work I often hear leaders say their days are a blur. They bounce from meeting to meeting, field urgent requests, and then wonder where the day went. I have...

Lean Tools, Lean Leadership

Gemba walk checklist—leader seeing waste and coaching improvement.

See With Your Feet: Solve Problems at the Gemba

Solving Problems at the Source: Why Gemba-Based Problem Solving Strengthens Leadership and Results In every organization, problem-solving is more than an operational requirement—it is a core...

Lean Tools, Problem-Solving

Standard work document used by a healthcare CEO Leading with purpose

Standard Work For CEO

Can Standard Work Apply to the CEO Role? Absolutely When we talk about standard work, most people immediately think of manufacturing floors, assembly lines, or operational teams. There is a common...

Lean Leadership

Huddle at tier board aligning shift goals with daily system objectives.

Tiered Management System

Tiered Management: Ensuring Commitment and Accountability at Every Level A few days ago, a healthcare executive reached out to me with a concern about their Tiered Management system. On the surface,...

Idea Cards to improve Process: Safety, Quality, Ease of Doing, Ease of Learning, and Efficiency

Ideas Are Like The Wind

Reading the Improvement Board: Seeing Culture in Action You can’t see the wind—but you can see leaves trembling, branches bending, and trees swaying in a storm. Similarly, you can’t see ideas—but...

Continuous Improvement

How Would You Lead Without Your Office?

Real-Time Decisions Start at the Gemba: Seeing, Thinking, Deciding In many organizations, leaders make decisions from offices, relying on reports, dashboards, and delayed data. While convenient,...

Lean Leadership

Couple going on Vacation because they stabilize their business

Help Please - Need Lean Management For Business

Regaining Balance in Business and Life Through Lean Principles I recently received a message that stopped me in my tracks. A client, whom I’ll call Brenda, was reaching out with a problem many small...

Lean Tools, Continuous Improvement

Lean Insights & Proven Strategies for Manufacturers

Browse dozens of articles packed with practical tips on stabilizing operations, engaging teams, and scaling sustainably with confidence.

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Visual Management of Decisions With The Accountability Board

Beyond The Safety Cross

Process Understanding At a Glance

Leader Standard Work and Personal Kanban

A Closer Look at Leader Standard Work

Why Leader Standard Work Matters for Effective Leadership

See With Your Feet: Solve Problems at the Gemba

Standard Work For CEO

Tiered Management System

Ideas Are Like The Wind

How Would You Lead Without Your Office?

Help Please - Need Lean Management For Business

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