Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 28, 2016

Here are six ways leaders can do this. There’s no easier way to show you value people than to learn about them and use their names when you speak with them. Don’t expect them to do personal errands for you. Each individual is a unique combination of natural and learned cognitive capabilities. This is a good start.

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Decentralization Lean Manufacturing Directory Learning-by-Doing 240

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At its core, lean project management is about delivering greater value while minimizing waste. In that sense, this approach will help you improve quality while decreasing the cost of production — but where do you begin? Improved team collaboration. How to Apply Lean Project Management Methodology. Vincent Van Gogh.

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Project Management Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing 86

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 19, 2012

Contact Mike make your team and leaders better. The image on the right reflects the ‘ Cascade-of-Planning ’ model or in Lean Manufacturing the Hoshin Kanri used in the Toyota Production System. Improvement in decision making and problem solving leads to improved innovation and work of the team. What do you think?

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Lean Manufacturing Delegation Process System 131

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Although it’s easy to fall into this mindset as a leader, this type of thinking is counterproductive and it ignores the underlying reasons why people lose their passion for what they do (or never find it to begin with). Exploring, experimenting, learning — this is the way we’re supposed to live and work. Add to Cart.

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Motivation Lean Manufacturing Management System 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

How bilingual do you — or your translators — need to be? That's achieved by doing by design what I benefited from by accident — explicitly ask people to translate. The issue is less how any given individual "understands" an innovative idea or technique than how the team or group translates it into their own language.

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Innovation Workshop Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If it were a Toyota vehicle-manufacturing plant, a key enabler would be a rope strung along each production line above team members, the Andon Cord. The cord can be pulled by anyone encountering a quality problem or needing assistance from the team leader.

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Health Care Ishikawa Lean Manufacturing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

As a manufacturing company grows, it benefits from economies of scale and can focus teams of people on extracting the maximum productivity from its plant operations. But the relative handful that do learn rapidly hold interesting lessons for all of us. IKEA originally designed its "Bang" mug to cost just 50 cents.

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Company Customer Loyalty Guidelines Lean Manufacturing 15