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		<title>Wine. Napa Valley. Supply Chain. Lean. You?</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2011/wine-napa-valley-supply-chain-lean-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wine.  Napa Valley, CA.  Lean.  Operations. Supply Chain.  Possibly, the best Lean Supply Chain Executive career opportunity in America today?   I’m asking for your help in identifying the perfect candidate for the position I’ll be describing below.  Not an average &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2011/wine-napa-valley-supply-chain-lean-you">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shingo Award &#8211; the New Critical Criteria for Hiring a Lean Leader?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I happened to stumble upon a position description for a Director, Lean Enterprise within a Fortune 1000 company. While the company identified itself in the posting, I’m not going to name names because it’s not my intention to &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2011/shingo-award-the-new-critical-criteria-for-hiring-a-lean-leader">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Some Lean into Chesapeake Bay Candle Co.</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2011/putting-some-lean-into-chesapeake-bay-candle-co</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 17:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last 16 years, Chesapeake Bay Candle produced its scented candles in Asia. But then things began to change.  Increased labor and transportation costs were steadily eating into profits.  Retailers’ never seemed to have enough product in stock and &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2011/putting-some-lean-into-chesapeake-bay-candle-co">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Manufacturing Manager &#8211; Rock Star of Lean Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Lean Manufacturing Manager &#8211; Rock Star of Lean Transformation  -  focused on any combination of Global Logistics and Services, Supply Chain and Supplier Development, or Lean Operations Planning and Execution   Expertise: Asia, Europe, China, International, Lean Distribution, Lean Supply Chain, Lean &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2011/lean-manufacturing-manager-rock-star-of-lean-transformation">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast features Adam Zak, Bill Wadell, speaking with Mark Graban on Simple Excellence</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/podcast-features-adam-zak-bill-wadell-speaking-with-mark-graban-on-simple-excellence</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Graban hosts today&#8217;s   LeanBlog Podcast #105,    a conversation with the co-authors of the new book Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation from Productivity Press. Authors Adam Zak, a regular guest blogger here on Leanblog.org and &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/podcast-features-adam-zak-bill-wadell-speaking-with-mark-graban-on-simple-excellence">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Continuous Improvement Approach to Web Content Management</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/lean-continuous-improvement-approach-to-web-content-management</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Gerry McGovern&#8217;s blog, New Thinking, from time to time and have often found his advice for tweaking my Web site to be quite helpful.  The most recent issue of Gerry&#8217;s newsletter talks about why the strategic focus of Web management must &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/lean-continuous-improvement-approach-to-web-content-management">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Excellence is here&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot off the press, Simple Excellence: Organizing the Management Team in a Lean Transformation, has arrived. Available through our publisher, Productivity Press (CRC Press/Taylor &#38; Francis) as well as from Amazon.com, Barnes &#38; Noble, and other fine book merchants. Check &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/simple-excellence-is-here">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Simple Excellence&#8221; &#8211; coming November 19, 2010, and in good company</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/simple-excellence-coming-in-good-company-harry-potter-russell-crowe-nook</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a quick glance over at  Wikipedia we can see that quite a number of awesome events have taken place on November 19th in previous years.  And someday down the road we&#8217;ll look back on this year&#8217;s November 19, in &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/simple-excellence-coming-in-good-company-harry-potter-russell-crowe-nook">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The High Cost of Poor Accounting</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/the-high-cost-of-poor-accounting</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditional cost accounting measures sub-optimize and work against most systemic or process approaches (Lean). Activity Based Costing (ABC) has the potential to generate even more distorted results (chapter 4, “The High Cost of Poor Accounting”). Activity Based Costing is just &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/the-high-cost-of-poor-accounting">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership is Learning to See Fresh Context</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/leadership-is-learning-to-see-fresh-context</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s Your Context?  A man sat at a Metro station in Washington, D.C. playing the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. Since it was rush hour, it&#8217;s likely that thousands of &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/leadership-is-learning-to-see-fresh-context">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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