A
selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of May
2023. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here.
Eight
Tips for Managing Up – Steve Kane shares some tips for managing up in a
rapidly changing, or continuous improvement, environment.
Reflections
on True North – Pascal Dennis talks about how Strategy Deployment is messy,
humbling, intuitive, a marriage between the Right & Left brain, between
intuition & logic, art & science.
The
Necessity of Leading Without Reacting to Metrics – Christopher Chapman
discusses an interesting essay by David Heinemeir Hansson, wherein he makes an
argument for the “luxury” of working without metrics.
The Difference between the
Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing – Christoph Roser discusses
some smaller differences between TPS and westernized version Lean in the
underlying approach, as well as some larger and often unintentional differences
in its application.
Why
Lean Management Requires Humble Hubris – Jim Benson reflects on the mindset
and related behaviors that are the standardized work of “being the change you
wish to see.”
Ask
Art: Do You Prefer a Handwritten or Computerized Process for Visual Management?
– Art Byrne shares the questions that matter when setting up your visual
management systems.
How
Context Switching Affects Problem-Solving – Steve Kane explains Context
switching poses significant challenges to our cognitive processes and
problem-solving abilities.
Toyota’s real
secret sauce – Michael Balle wonders
whether we are drawing the right lessons from TPS and highlights a few things
we are underemphasizing.
Business
Transformation Strategy: Breakthrough Ahead – Maggie Millard presents several
critical milestones on the path to successful business transformation.
It’s
Unfair and Unjust to Blame and Punish Nurses for Systemic Mistakes – Mark Graban
talks about systemic problem of medical when nurses have more “accountability”
thrown at them than autonomy.
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