Coaching Lean eBook with Dr. Liker

This is a transcription of the Business901 podcast,  Lean Coaching & Learning with Jeff Liker with Dr. Jeffrey Liker on Coaching Lean. Dr. Liker is the author of The Toyota Way Fieldbook and the upcoming book, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement (Book release date is April 22nd, Podcast will be later this month). Liker Read More …

Create a Great Workplace eBook

Ed Muzio, president and CEO of Group Harmonics was my guest on the Business901 Podcast. This is a transcription of the podcast, Creating a Great Workplace. We had a great discussion on his new book,  Make Work Great: Super Charge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time. He is Read More …

Make my Day, Sign up for a November 28 Day Program

How Good are you at Marketing Yourself? Marketing your Black Belt is a 28-day program starting November 5th. Marketing your Black Belt is based specifically on addressing these issues: Customer Acquisition, Marketing, Customer Retention and Communication & Collaboration. Specifically designed for Quality consultants. Get Clients NOW – 28 Day Program: Program starting on first Monday Read More …

Training within Industry (TWI) old hat

Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast is a good introduction to TWI and Read More …

Can you Master Continuous Improvement?

What is Mastery? Comprehensive knowledge or skill in a subject or accomplishment. The action or process of mastering a subject or accomplishment Mastery, why don’t we spend more time learning about it? I have always been convinces that it is not how many tools you have in your bag but how many tools you use Read More …

Sustaining Lean E-book

Lonnie Wilson, the owner and principal of Quality Consultants is an expert in Lean Manufacturing techniques and applications. He not only instructs management professionals in the applications of these lean techniques; he is an on-the-floor-implementation professional. His new book, How To Implement Lean Manufacturing, was released by McGraw Hill, August 2009. This is a transcription Read More …