I'm currently working on a Mistake Proofing class for Karen Martin and TKMG Academy. Coming soon!! In the process of writing the course and its script, I've gone back to some older source materia...
https://www.leanblog.org/2024/02/shigeo-shingo-norman-bodek-on-learning-from-mistakes/
2024 Preface: I'm re-posting this blog post from 2012 about Lean at Boeing. The WSJ headline emphasizes “speed up,” but that could be the fault of their editors not realizing that Lean means ...
It's a Throwback Thursday… As I watched the MLB Home Run Derby last night, I really enjoyed watching the Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In fact, he...
https://www.leanblog.org/2021/07/throwback-tuesday-shohei-ohtani-norman-bodek-and-the-harada-method/
I was incredibly saddened today to hear that Norman Bodek passed away yesterday in Japan, where he had recently moved with his wife, Noriko. Norman was 88. This was announced through an email fro...
https://www.leanblog.org/2020/12/mourning-remembering-loss-mentor-teacher-norman-bodek/
There's a very well known cartoon that you might have seen where a caveman offers round wheels to other cavemen who are pulling a cart that has square wheels. One says, “No thanks,” and the o...
You might remember my blog post from May about the Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (that's not a very "lean" team name, is it"). I suggested that Norman B...
https://www.leanblog.org/2018/09/shohei-ohtani-norm-bodek-and-the-harada-method-in-the-wsj/
I first learned about an approach to personal development called "The Harada Method" when Norman Bodek co-authored a book with Takashi Harada: The Harada Method: The Spirit of Self-Reliance. N...
https://www.leanblog.org/2018/05/shohei-ohtani-takashi-harada-and-norman-bodek/
I've produced A LOT of content about Kaizen and continuous improvement over the past 11 years, including podcasts and webinars. Somebody asked me to build a "curriculum" and a sequence of podcast...