Tag: Sports
Patriots’ Coach Bill Belichick : Surface Tablets :: Some Doctors :...
I saw this article the other day on Deadspin, one of my favorite non-Lean blogs/sites.
Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots, got...
Did Bad Systems & Training, Weak Problem Solving, and Poor Supervision...
The cancelation of a meaningless NFL exhibition pre-season game is probably one of the least important problems in the world. But, it happened recently...
Updates: NICU Innovation, Labs, MLB Netting, VA Waiting (and Cheating)
I recently saw some updates and new details related to some topics I've covered here on the blog, so I'm combining them into this...
What We Can Learn About Teamwork and Culture from the San...
After living in San Antonio for almost four years, my wife and I will finally be settled into the DFW area by the end...
Simple Mixups & How Blaming Workers Doesn’t Explain or Prevent Them
When we see a simple error, even in something as silly as sports memorabilia, we would ask "why?" or "how?" instead of "who?" Blaming individuals doesn't help...
Lean Blog Flashback to 2014: The NY Jets & Copying
Here is a post from today's date, October 28, from last year. Organizations get in trouble when they copy a Lean tool or method and they don't have the entire system and mindset in place. It's a Catch 22 -- we want to learn from others...
Like Lean: An NFL Head Coach Gets Out of His Office,...
...this WSJ article caught my attention: "The Coach Who Won't Leave the Locker Room." The sub headline is "Why Carolina Panthers' Ron Rivera has become obsessed with integrating himself into his players' personal workspace." An NFL coach is at "the gemba" during a game, of course...
How Kaizen is the Key to Northwestern’s Stellar Defense
Many of you don’t care about football, but you might find it interesting, as I did, to learn that Northwestern’s defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz is apparently a fan of Kaizen...
Are Millennials the Only Ones Who Need to Understand Why?
And the idea of knowing why... again that's an old desire. It's not just a recent discovery of Simon Sinek and the outstanding book Start with Why (my friends at Gemba Academy have a podcast interview with him coming soon). Why are we doing something? Why are we starting this company? That's an old tale... are you breaking rocks or building a cathedral?
Football, Holistic Systems, and Challenging the Way It’s Always Been Done
Many of you might not care, but it's football season. Major college football starts tomorrow night and the NFL kicks off their season next...
Lean Thoughts at a Toronto Blue Jays Game
I love what I do and I travel a lot... the travel can sometimes be a drag, such as last Monday's flight delays with...
Would the WSJ Blame “Just in Time” for the Stanley Cup...
The Wall St Journal loves writing about how "Just In Time" (JIT) is a risky inventory strategy. See my past posts about how the...