Tag: visual management

VIDEO: Crush Your Performance Evaluation

https://vimeo.com/797710230 Many of you went through your year-end evaluation recently. How did it go? Did you crush it? Or did you feel your evaluation was...

The Worst Waste of All

  So—is it a 9 or is it a 6? Depends on who's looking at the problem. You’ve probably seen memes similar to this that call...
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Develop a “Why?” Mindset

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Lean, at its heart, is about finding the root causes of problems that prevent you from achieving your goals. Often, what stands in the way...
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SWOT: Rediscover a Classic

Ever go through your closet or toolbox and find something useful you forgot you had—and wound up being glad you did? I suggest you rummage...
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Whip Out the WIP Board

https://vimeo.com/265912042 Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been providing you steps to stay productive and focused in work and in life. If you completed your mind map...

How to Make a Mind Map

Any Harry Potter fans out there? If so, you’re familiar with the idea of a pensieve. The wizard Albus Dumbledore uses the pensieve—a large, shallow...
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Get Wise and Synchronize!

  Want to learn how to shave weeks off knowledge work—with valuable learning as an added return on your investment? The first order of business is...
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Putting 5S to Work in the Business Office

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If you read this blog regularly, you’re aware that the same lean tools that make manufacturing more efficient can work wonders in the business...
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LABP’s Biggest Gift Is Time

How are you coming along with your end-of-year initiatives? Are you realizing noticeable gains, or are you getting bogged down with too much work...

When Finger-Pointing Is a Good Thing

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This month’s blog post will be short and sweet. Why? My WIP is at max! (If this concept is new to you, revisit my...