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Reflection or hansei in Japanese, is a critical part of lean.

Some lies you can see a mile away. The check is in the mail. Your table will be ready in a few minutes. I didn’t say that.

I love simple questions.

Regular tiered meetings are a staple of any company’s lean management system.

I just contributed a guest post of the same title to Christian Paulsen's Lean Leadership blog. Please visit his site to read my full post and to take in some of Chris' excellent lean content. Chris shared some of his insight with us a while back in his Gemba Tales guest post, 5 Reasons You Need to Do a DMAIC.

Normally, I introduce the guest post author at the conclusion of the post. However, this one needs a little pre-post explanation. Believe me.

Ok, it's really aerial photography with a lean application.

Lean is largely about satisfying customer requirements.

Lean culture is largely defined by, or at least manifested in, engaged and empowered employe