“Illusions can easily turn into conventional wisdom.” Taiichi Ohno
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These ten ideas will dramatically improve your projects. Are these ten rules the top ten? You decide. But don't take too long. Share these rules with your team. Your team members are sure to help you carry them out!
I did an interview with Bas de Baar via Skype video. We discussed how my company is using collaborative tools in support of our clients' projects. Enjoy!
Did you catch the Foreword to In Pursuit of Elegance
The Lean Project Coaches hit the 50 posts mark on Friday. Quite a milestone for just 6 weeks blogging at Coaches Corner. They are writing on all aspects of lean projects. Tap into that for your projects.
Chris Slivon shares a bit of her journey in being a lean coach in the post
Knowing and Not Knowing where she and others write for Lean Project Consulting's Coaches Corner.
Daily improvement to make our jobs safer, easier and more interesting is a corner-stone for Toyota. My colleague Rebecca Bettler describes how Quick 'n'Easy Kaizen is even more powerful when it's team sport. Read A Hidden Beauty...
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Learn about the TWI approach from the only Senior Master Trainer in the US. Patrick Graupp will introduce you to this landmark program: Webinar.
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Adopt this mnemonic for your project environment. Thanks Matt for writing about it.
Raven is consolidating project management hash tags for use on Twitter. Thank you Raven!
Read the latest story of how green meets lean, or should I say kaizen? It's a Wall St Journal article that you don't want to miss.
It irks me when people play games with their writing. It wastes the readers' time, turns them off to what one has to say, and creates idealogical warfares. Write clearly...for the readers. Sorry for this outburst. Let's speak (and write) so we can be understood. Our projects will benefit from that.
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My first thought was “this is urban myth.” But we have a similar stripe going down Niwot road here in Colorado I ride my bike past a root extending into the roadway almost everyday. What I discovered was the road painting team diverted around the root “on purpose” so everyone would see their work and respond just as the original poster did – look at those lazy line painters.
It’s good conversation, but not very good on the “facts” side.
Is this a line painter who has “stop(ped) trying to be perfect and start(ed) being remarkable”. Had s/he been reading “The Big Moo”? Is this what Seth and the Group of 33 intended? ;•)
taking the line around a root does seem to be responsible deviation – warning drivers of uneven surface [and even protecting the tree?]
Happy New Year
I used this photo in a presentation to our entire company two weeks ago. It was my closing photo. The group loved it and it communciated perfectly how quality depends on all of us.
I’ll use it again…this photo is worth 10,000 words, plus.