CBA Training Session Plus-Delta

Plus: Quality of information; Ability to practice during session. Delta: Make attendance at future session mandatory; Use real examples for CBA exercises; Structure session into one 4-hour session, one 8-hour session and one 4-hour session; Provide a CBA glossary; Use hardcover version of CBA book.

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Lean Citizenship

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Thanks to my colleague Steve Knapp I came across a 1998 article by Peter Block on the topic of Citizenship.  The thrust of the article was that a shared sense of accountability for the well-being of the larger enterprise is the price of our freedom to participate in self-governing systems, and …

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Bulk Thinking at Carrier Air Conditioning

Carrier Air Conditioning is hardly alone in shipping U.S. manufacturing jobs to other countries. They’re more visible given the the video release of the Indiana plant operations relocation to Mexico announcement to newly displaced workers. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ttxGMQOrY. The affair brings to mind an essay Jim Womack wrote in 2003, Move Your Operations to China? Do

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