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08/09/201428/12/2014 on agile, Gemba, lean, management, personal kanban, personal productivity, personal scrum, productivity, visible work, work management

How to create a knowledge worker Gemba

I am a big fan of the work by Jim Benson and Tonianne Barry ever since I read their book: Personal Kanban. In this article Jim describes an idea that I would like to highlight and expand. He says: we need a knowledge worker Gemba. He goes on to describe how to create that Gemba: …

28/02/200928/12/2014 on Gemba, lean, lean thinking, management, toyota

What makes a great company? Recognizing you are not one yet…

The statement in the title is true even for those that are commonly recognized as great, as they say “here today gone tomorrow”. If you really want to be great you should not shout it out loud at every opportunity, you should recognize what your strengths are, play to them and always, always be on …