Are you ready for showtime?–Taxi Terry

A one-of-a-kind cab driver, "Taxi Terry," created an "Ultimate Customer Experience ®" for business leader and #1 bestselling author Scott McKain. Listen as Scott speaks to a national sales audience of a top retailer and shares insights on distinction and customer service.  Scott is a best selling author. His books include: ALL Business is Show Read More …

Do you practice Professional Hypocrisy?

I realize there is snake-oil in every profession, and I have more than likely contributed a little along the way. However, seldom do I get irritated by anything more than someone who bestows the virtues of a methodology and fails to use that methodology in their own business. Recently, I interviewed Dominica DeGrandis, who teaches Read More …

Crucial & Collaborative Conversations for Predictable Design & Delivery

Alan Mossman is my guest next week on the podcast where we discuss the latest updates and writings on The Last Planner® System (LPS). The Last Planner® was created by Glenn Ballard and Greg Howell co-founders of the Lean Construction Institute. Alan is a lean design and lean construction consultant, trainer and author. He trained Read More …

The Lean Innovation Engine–Turn the Key

From Tina Seelig’s book inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity: Below is the fully functional Innovation Engine, showing how all the parts are braided together. The inside of the engine is intertwined with the outside; and the factors on the inside and outside mirror each other. All the parts of your Innovation Engine are inexorably Read More …

Lean 3P is PDCA on Steroids

Well said by Allan R. Coletta, author of a new book The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process. Development of the 3P process is attributed to Chichiro Nakao, a former Toyota group manager and the founder of Shingijutsu company. The accepted meaning of 3P is Production, Preparation, Process. Allan is Read More …