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		<title>Best Lean Practices for Winter Golf</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are occasionally able to sneak away from the Great White North for some winter golf, two things become painfully apparent: it’s expensive; and, it’s often very SLOW! Why? Supply and demand, of course. In Naples, &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2011/best-lean-practices-for-winter-golf">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>
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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>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>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>Executive Moves: Begin With the End in Mind</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/executive-moves-begin-with-the-end-in-mind</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treat the executive you&#8217;re recruiting as well or better than you would your best customer&#8230; The recruiting process to identify your company’s new CFO has been thorough and professionally executed. Your search committee, your retained search firm, and all key &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/executive-moves-begin-with-the-end-in-mind">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizen Kowboys Ride Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I coined the term &#8220;Kaizen Kowboys&#8221; a few years ago (Lean Culture: Collected Practices and Cases).   Since Bill Wadell was kind enough to reprise its use in his blog yesterday I thought I&#8217;d provide a little historical background. The company involved was &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/kaizen-kowboys-ride-again">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recalibrate Your Executive Search Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the last 12 months some top HR leaders in North America, and even the CEOs of two of the largest global retained executive search organizations, have publically declared the traditional executive recruiting model broken and badly in need of &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/recalibrate-your-executive-search-expectations">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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