Hey, Adam Zak here. It's a New Year. Time for a fresh start maybe? A renewal of sorts? A reach back to the basics of building and sustaining Lean operations in your organization? All of those? You might like this podcast from LEI, The Lean Enterprise Institute, in which Tom [...]
Why "Simple Excellence?" Today more than ever, to help today's leaders figure out how to more effectively organize and align themselves and their management teams to create sustainable Operational Excellence in their spheres of influence. It was 10 years ago this month that we published Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning [...]
Problem identification and problem solving require very focused and specific thinking. The strongest Lean leaders start with extensive observation and then engage in deep thought in their effort to engage with the current state, examine the issues, postulate ways in which they might address those issues, and then, of [...]
Culp again demonstrates the Lean leadership acumen, his attention to the important stuff...
I recruit Lean executives. When people ask, that's what I tell them. Yet I find that a surprising number of folks still hold at least a few misconceptions about what that really means. Since you're reading this it's unlikely that you're among them, but just in case... Lean is a [...]
In one of his recent posts, What’s Your Lean Provenance? Bob Emiliani writes about people who like to brag about when they first learned about Lean or who they learned it from. I've met some of these individuals, folks who want to show off how close they were to the beginning ("I worked [...]
Matthew May writes about the new book Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation for American Express OpenForum readers. (from the Archives, 2010) Big Idea: Take Henry David Thoreau's plea to "Simplify, simplify, simplify!" and combine it with what Legendary IBM boss Tom J. Watson, Jr. [...]
Podcast #105 is a conversation with the co-authors of the new book Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation from Productivity Press. They are Adam Zak, a regular guest blogger here on Leanblog.org and Lean-focused executive recruiter and Bill Waddell, a Lean consultant and frequent [...]
This Business901 podcast is a two-part series with Adam Zak. Joe Dager invited Adam to discuss a few of his secrets behind learning about people and engaging them in meaningful dialogue about themselves. (from the Archives, 2013)
Joe Dager of the Business901 podcast interviews Adam Zak about Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation, Adam's new book just out from CRC Press. (from the Archives, 2010) "During the podcast I was able to ask questions on Customer Value, Value Proposition, and Value Streams, subjects that [...]