Paul Akers and the Leadership Team from the BI Group travel to Japan to further their education on Lean. Are you saving every dollar that you can?

Paul Akers and the Leadership Team from the BI Group travel to Japan to further their education on Lean. Did you know there was two kinds of kaizen?

Paul Akers and the Leadership Team from the BI Group travel to Japan to further their education on Lean. Day 1 was spent in the Dojo Gemba Simulator.

We read this article in our morning meeting. Paul and Leanne were at this hotel where the eight Americans were killed. This is a powerful story of bravery and heroism. Reggie, their guide from Belgium provided this article as additional background to the story he told them.

John Montanari, of The Kartel, sent us this video show Grant’s creativity building a stand-up desk out of repurposed pallets and items found around the office.

Chris Hotze, of Crescere Capital Management, sent us this video showing how standardization works for aesthetics, too!

Paul Akers, the president of FastCap, commits to regularly visiting the front lines of his company as part of his leader standard work. But don’t confuse this commitment for “management by walking around” (MBWA). Akers does it as much (or more) for his own edification than for the training of his employees. Press here to read more of the article by Dan Markovitz of Markovitz Consulting.

Chris Hotze, of Crescere Capital Management, sent us this video showing how they transitioned to a lockbox to save a ton of time. Now that’s Lean thinking!

Check out Len’s book club! He is having tremendous impact on his organization.