Tag: Respect for People

strategy+business, the e-magazine from Booz, Allen & Hamilton, reports how the US Army is changing the way that it shares knowledge within such a...

Southwest. Way Southwest. - NY Times Jeff Bailey at the New York Times wrote a great article about Southwest Airlines and their legendary approach to...

I got a couple of reader emails last week that prompted me to think about Lean and the Toyota Way principle of...

Article Link: Lifting specialists set to lose weightI'm always a bit skeptical when I hear about Lean being a "project." Sure, a project can...

Jim Womack's E-letters - Respect for People Jim Womack's most recent e-letter is one of the best I've read in quite a while. I...

There was a question on the NWLean email list about suggestions, in the context of The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen, reading in...

Two article links, sent to me by a few readers: Court: Toyota Employee Was Worked to Death Widow of Toyota worker questions labor practices At a first...

I saw this in a workplace, posted by a union. But, you know, as a Lean practitioner, I couldn't agree with this cartoon...

NWA puts an emphasis on serviceI saw this article in the Detroit paper when connecting on a Northwest Airlines flight today. My flight...

A poignant story showed up in the Washington Post during the recent GM strike that hits at the heart of the principle of respect...

'I don't want this to happen to anyone else' This will happen again, unless the process is fixed. Lean can help. Please read on... I heard...

by Dan MarkovitzThe latest issue of Strategy+Business, Booz Allen Hamilton's business journal, features an article on cost cutting. Ordinarily, simple cost cutting flies...