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The Backstory – A Few More Thoughts
The Backstory – The Workmanship of Leaders
The Backstory – A Changed Perspective
Now You Know!
Engage or Ignore?
The Backstory – The Aesthetic Compass
Cancelling Lean Culture
The Satisfying Spectacle of Classical Management
Cuckoo for Kata
Great Expectations
Ohno’s Theory of Nonproductivity
Go See? What For?
Stupidity at Scale
Mass Producing Happiness
Wonder No More
The Backstory – Improvement
Recent WTFU Articles
Akio Toyoda’s View of TPS: A Critical Analysis
Lean Management Seen as Corruption
Lean’s Tragic Path Dependence
How Lean Induces Debilitating Cognitive Dissonance
The Enemy of Lean is Classical Management
Boeing 737 Max and Lean Transformation
Petition to End Classical Management
Lean Must Learn From Black Lives Matter
Means and Ends in Management Systems
Classical Management Cycle
What is Lean’s Future?
Lean Got a Bad Start
Wanting to Know, Preferring to Ignore
The Yin and Yang of Management
Criticism of Triumph of Classical Management
Creating a Lean Culture
Winning With Lean
Management Darwinism
Lean Fighting Blind
Waste is a Feature, Not a Bug
Lean Leaders Impede the Advancement of Lean
Modernizing the Practice of Management
Dr. Deming’s SoPK and Dr. Emiliani’s SoPP
Lean Can’t Fail!
Lean Graft Incompatibility
In Search of Lean CEOs
System T and Lean
Promotion of Lean Must Evolve
The Shingo Experiment
Fulfillment by Status Quo, Inc.
What About the Past State?
Where Scientific Thinking Lives and Dies
The Elephant in the Room
Profoundly Antagonistic Systems
Dismantling Classical Management
Escape the Ideological Bubble
That’s Not My Job
Business as Experimental Science
Selling Lean to Business Leaders
The Outcome of Serious Research
The Leader’s Prerogative
One Strategy, Two Paths
Money vs. Process View of Cost
Business Leaders’ Case for Ignoring Lean
The Problem Lean May Never Overcome
Is Lean Too Arrogant to Save Itself?
What’s Holding Lean Back?
Lean Transformation is Not Difficult
The Backstory – The Triumph of Classical Management
Reefer Sanity
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