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Month: September 2016

Teams are “Us” – Part 2: What’s a Team To Do?

Teams are “Us” – Part 2: What’s a Team To Do?

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“If you want one year of prosperity grow grain.  If you want ten years of prosperity grow trees.  If you want one hundred years of prosperity grow your people” — Confucius (~ 500 BC) I formed my first JIT/TPS/Lean team a little over a quarter-century ago. Time really does fly – unfortunately. Since that time, I have formed/created/sponsored well over a hundred such teams, probably closer to two hundred. I don’t know for sure since I did not keep a list….

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Teams are “Us” – Part 1: What’s a Team?

Teams are “Us” – Part 1: What’s a Team?

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“If you want one year of prosperity grow grain.  If you want ten years of prosperity grow trees.  If you want one hundred years of prosperity grow your people” — Confucius (~ 500 BC) I guess you can say that truth and wisdom have been with us for a very long time. The problem is — we seem to have very short memories. The other problem is that we often, conveniently, divide the “people” up into “us” and “them”. I can’t…

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