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Cause Mapping I Workshop Review
I recently attended a ThinkReliability training course titled Cause Mapping I: Effective Root Cause Analysis. Having a fair bit of experience with RCA, I was a bit concerned at first that this would...
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Weekend Reading: Strategy Perils & Lean Manufacturing
From HBR Blog: Joan Magretta: Strategy Essentials You Ignore at Your Peril From Wikipedia: Lean manufacturing Toyota Production System W. Edwards Deming Continuous improvement process Kaizen From...
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Notes on the Science of Success Chapter 7: Incentives
My notes on chapter 7 of The Science of Success by Charles Koch: Quotes “‘The problem of management’ is ‘how to set up social conditions in any organization so that the goals of the individual merge...
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Gemba Kaizen by Masaaki Imai
Book Review: Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy by Masaaki Imai In Japanese, gemba means “real place”—the place where real action occurs. Japanese use the word...
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Weekend Reading: Feedback to the CEO
Amusing anecdote about giving requested feedback to the CEO of a “large global corporation” How to deal with overheating engines MindTools for hiring the right person and assigning responsibilities:...
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Weekend Reading: Process Strategy 2.0, Incentives, and File Syncing
MindTools for conscious strategic leadership: the leadership style matrix, principles and practice of agile leadership, and choosing the right leadership style for the situation How Silt Lock Can...
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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership by Jeffrey Liker
Book Review: The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development by Jeffrey Liker “No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen...
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