Almost done now. If you missed Part 1 click here, Part 2 is here. If not, here's the final scuffle with the UK Director. 30 October I wro...

If you missed Part 1 click here. If not, here's the continued wrangle with the Dealer Principal. 30 September I wrote to [Dealer Prinicpa...

The downside of growing lean skill is the gnawing certainty that almost all systems are broken, creating varying degrees of pain for Cust...

A blog like this would usually be titled "Best of..." but I don't subscribe to the idea of "best" when it comes to knowledge transfer. How...

"Bridging the gap between Industry 4.0 vendors & manufacturers" As an unintended consequence of my lean work I’ve spent the last 2 years ...

Whatever happens on Saturday in Yokohama, we’re in for a deluge of articles & blogs about the magic of Eddie Jones and the England Rugby ...

Along with death & taxes, I may have discovered another certainty in life: you never know what your kids are going to retain as useful in...

Problem Solving & Movies are two things I like. The former I’ve been coaching for 20 years; sometimes well, sometimes badly. The latter I...

…about sharpening your eyes but not in a random way. The tweet above was from a photo I took whilst waiting for an old mentee to join me ...

This blog should bring a little comfort to lean thinkers, but first let me explain the re-enacted picture above. Having put down my bottl...

Inspired by Michael Balle's recent Obeya article sharing his mistakes, here are a few of mine from 2018. Less is more so, to keep it shor...

In today's blog, I present no answers, only a question I have no answer for. In about 5 minutes you'll be contemplating the irony of this...

First blog of 2018 and I’m sure the suspense has been killing you. This post is about forcing deeper learning in a coaching exchange. Ter...

Last week I recounted the story of Gary feeding back to Tony (#37) after his Team Brief. I hinted pretty heavily that neither a better br...

Last Thursday I observed a Team Brief at shift start up, delivered by a fledging Team Leader who we’ll call Tony. By my reckoning, I’ve w...

I hesitate to say this but I'm blessed with a number of brutal friends. Not a physical-never-tire-of-hitting-you-in-the-face brutal but a...

…about coaching, gemba, treasure hunts I’m a lucky man in more ways than I have fingers and toes to count. However, curious as to why I'm...

As a lean community we’re at it again... ...the lazy business of reducing a very useful habit into a stand-alone tool to package up and s...

Today's blog: The kaizen mind of a competitive eater & why this isn't entirely what we're aiming for in developing lean capability. I hav...

Today's blog: The benefits of not sharing a mother tongue. This edition of the leansempai blog is shorter than usual for word-related rea...