Knowledge Workers in the Lean Enterprise
Knowledge workers are workers whose main capital is knowledge. Typical examples may include software engineers, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, scientists,...
Lean Citizenship
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 …
Challenge Unspoken Assumptions Regarding Problems
I observed a great example of a project superintendent seeing beyond an unspoken assumption regarding a problem on the project. The...