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Lean Roundup #196 – September 2025 0
- Lean Roundup
- September 29, 2025
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of September 2025. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Fear and Futility: Two Barriers to Improvement (and How Leaders Can Remove Them) – Mark Graban explains how fear and futility undermine improvement and what leaders can do to eliminate these
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Lean Quote: If You Want to Be Interesting, You Have to Be Interested 0
- Lean Quote
- September 26, 2025
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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10 Keys for Lean Daily Management 0
- Lean Management
- September 24, 2025
10 Keys for Lean Daily Management: Driving Continuous Improvement Organizations often start their lean journey with Kaizen workshops, aiming for quick wins. However, many see improvements fade over time because lean depends on people consistently applying the tools. Tools like standard work succeed only when individuals understand, care, and use them daily. Lean daily management
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Embrace a Lean Mindset vs Hero Mentality 0
- Lean Basics, Problem Solving
- September 24, 2025
At first glance, the “hero” mentality might seem like a workplace virtue. It’s the employee who takes charge in every crisis and seemingly save the day when systems fail. The organization’s heroes put in the long hours to get the job done – because, and often ostensibly, because others in the organization do not have
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