Lean Daily Management: What It Is and How to Get Started

TL;DR: Lean daily management is the system that makes improvement happen between the projects — visual boards, huddles, gemba walks, leader standard work, and strategy alignment working together. The boards don't do the work. The leadership behaviors...

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Apr 02, 2026
A Brief Response From Mark (The Human)

I go to get coffee. Twelve minutes. A number of you have messaged me. Some of you messaged me multiple times. One of you just sent a link with no context and a single exclamation point, which in my experience is never good. I come back, and my AI has...

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Apr 01, 2026
What you can't learn about Lean without going to Japan

The Mistakes That Make Us is a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award from the Shingo Institute!Hi :There's a limit to what you can learn about the Toyota Production System from books, courses, and conferences. I say that as someone who writes the...

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Mar 30, 2026
Your Lean coach should ask questions, not write essays

The Mistakes That Make Us is a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award from the Shingo Institute!Hi :Here's something odd about AI coaching tools: they're all trained to be maximally helpful, which means the moment you ask a question, they give you...

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Mar 08, 2026