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 [...]
W. Edwards Deming, who in 1982 started off his 14 Points for Management with this simple proposition: “Create constancy of purpose.” It’s been more than a quarter century since Deming formulated his principles, but his advice has as much meaning today as it did then, a time when we were [...]
Jason Schulist has joined Appvion as vice president of continuous improvement. He will have responsibility for ongoing development of the company’s continuous improvement systems designed to drive exceptional results in safety, productivity, customer value, quality, and on-time product delivery. Schulist comes to Appvion from DTE Energy in Detroit, one of [...]
Bristol Compressors International, Inc., a leading global producer of compressors for use in air conditioning, heat pump and refrigeration systems, has named Keith Burton as vice president of operations. Burton most recently served as vice president of global operations at Jacobs Vehicle Systems (a Danaher company) in Bloomfield, Conn., where he [...]