Tag: Shook

Dan Pink's new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, has been getting a lot of press recently, and deservedly so. He demonstrates...

Two expressions get used often in the lean world, one from Dr. W. Edwards Deming and one from Toyota's Taiichi Ohno. Dr. Deming was...

Yesterday, I was in the first day of two for John Shook's "Managing to Learn" class about A3 management here at the Lean Enterprise...

It's an honor to again contribute to John Hunter's amalgamated Management Improvement Blog Carnival. The main page is located here. Ten bloggers are each...

I saw this quote on Twitter from the pastor Rick Warren (happens to fit in the 140 characters): "Love isn't letting people do whatever they...

Here is a video from Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario Canada about their Lean effort, the video is part of their main...

Panel Round II: Wait, Wait : NPR It's unfortunate that NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" show would mock Starbucks and their Lean efforts, as...

Yesterday's WSJ front page headline caught my eye, as a frequent Starbucks customer and obvious Lean zealot: Latest Starbucks Buzzword: 'Lean' Japanese Techniques The headline is...

University of Michigan looks to lean principles for system-wide improvements - MLive.comHere is some positive news coming out of my home state of Michigan......

The Magazine » Toyota's Secret: The A3 Report « MIT Sloan Management Review John Shook had an article published in the latest SMR, based on...

I have always learned a lot from John Shook. As I've blogged about before, I've seen John present about TPS and management (leadership, really)...

Toyota Names Akio Toyoda President, Apologizes to Shareholders for Losses This was rumored for a while, but Toyota has formally named Akio Toyoda as the...