Category Archives: Lean Conversations

Closing the “Lean Gap” in Leadership

I had a further conversation with Dan Markovitz of TimeBack Management yesterday regarding Lean Conversations and how to begin designing a rigorous assessment instrument. The objective being to give users a way to focus their actions on the most effective leverage points for reducing friction and waste in their everyday conversations and increasing productivity and effectiveness. Dan [...]

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Lean Conversations For Productivity Breakthroughs

With this post we are introducing a set of ideas we have been evolving for over two years, that we call Lean Conversations. The fundamental notion is that academicians, consultants, leaders, and managers in our culture have focused on and accomplished tremendous gains in productivity through process improvement, supply chain management, IT, and a host of [...]

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