“If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.” – W. Edwards Deming
Check out John Hunter’s post on some workplace experiments happening at 37Signals. Sounds like some progressive thinking individuals trusting and respecting their employees. John talks about how the company experimented with 4-day work weeks over the summer so [...]
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Systemic Workplace Experiments
Posted in Lean, career, change, culture on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lean Green Family Blog
Posted in Lean on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One wonderful aspect of the Internet (or time wasting distraction, depending on your point of view) is that sometimes a wrong turn takes you down a very interesting road.
I googled “lean thinking family” seeking out information for an upcoming blog on applying Lean thinking to family and personal work. In addition to the usual [...]
Lean Journey Update
Posted in Lean, change, culture, management, teams on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our Lean Journey continues at my organization. When I last blogged on this topic, our first Lean team had just completed the Current State Map of our Helpdesk System Value Stream Map. Since then we have also completed the Future State Map, identified a prioritized list of projects to get us from Current [...]
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