Lean Roundup #199 – December 2025
- Lean Roundup
- December 29, 2025

This is a guest post by Tony Manos a 5S champion at 5S Supply. Tony is a business advisor with Profero, Inc., Inc., where he provides professional consulting services, implementation, coaching and training to a wide variety of organizations, large and small, private and public, in many industries focusing on Lean Enterprise and Lean Healthcare.
READ MOREToday I have a guest post on the 5S Supply Blog entitled Sustaining with Layered Audits. The Layered Audit approach is especially effective in sustaining process improvements and institutionalizing key process steps because all levels of the organization participate. Layered Audits are tied directly into the fifth S – Sustain – and they are the means
READ MORELeadership is about power. A leader needs to lead and is only a leader with followers. Getting people to follow you in a direction they are going anyway is not leading. The challenge is to get people to follow in a direction they might not otherwise go. Leaders must have a sense of direction, often
READ MOREOn 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
READ MOREAn article at Bloomberg Businessweek entitled low inventory angers John Deere customer caught my eye this week. The article’s author writes of the perils of running lean, claiming that lean is the cause of John Deere’s customer service problem. This strikes me as another unfortunate example of L.A.M.E. not Lean. Mark Graban coined the term
READ MOREThe first step in becoming a good communicator is to learn how to listen. You think that you already know how to listen, but many people have more trouble with this seemingly simple activity than you realize. They may hear the words, but that isn’t the same as listening. Here are ten useful tips that
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