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Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 22, 2026

Jamie Flinchbaugh's 4 C's of Trust, Applied to NUMMI

Jamie Flinchbaugh writes about the 4 C's of trust: care, competency, communication, and consistency. One of the jobs…

Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 21, 2026

Why Nobody Went to See Muppets Most Wanted

Joe Hennes of Tough Pigs breaks down why Muppets Most Wanted underperformed at the box office: a title that lost its…

Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 20, 2026

AI Won't Replace Lean Thinking. But It Might Coach You Through It.

Two weeks in a row at the Lean Enterprise Institute Summit in Houston and Shingo Connect in San Diego. Both had a…

Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 20, 2026

Lean Hospitals Coach: An AI Thinking Partner for Better Problem Solving

Most AI tools are built to give quick answers. But in Lean, the thinking is the point. This short explainer introduces…

Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 20, 2026

Chad Diggs on Building Quality Systems, Not Heroes - Lean Blog Interviews

Chad Diggs talks with Mark Graban about Below the Surface and what it takes to build quality systems that don't depend…

Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 19, 2026

Every Muppet Is Bad at Their Job (And That's the Point)

Joe Hennes of Tough Pigs on what actually makes the Muppets work: everyone is dumb in their own way, and everyone is bad…

Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 18, 2026

Disney+ Should Be Greenlighting 4 Muppet Specials a Year

Joe Hennes of Tough Pigs makes the case that Disney+ has been thinking about The Muppets the wrong way. Forget the…

Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More May 18, 2026

I Got Hired at My Dream Company. It Got Complicated. | Joe Hennes

Joe Hennes built his career around Muppets -- first as editor-in-chief of Tough Pigs, then as an employee at Sesame…