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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>Congratulations to these Lean Leaders:  2010 Shingo Prize Lean Enterprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shingo Prize: Guanajuato Manufacturing Complex North Plant, AAM – Silao, Mexico Interiores Aéreos S.A. De C.V. Gulfstream Aerospace – Mexicali, Mexico Shingo Silver Medallion: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company– Lawton, Oklahoma HID Global – North Haven, Connecticut Hi-Tech Gears &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/congratulations-to-these-lean-leaders-2010-shingo-prize-lean-enterprises">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NUMMI Lean Talent &#8211; Find Your Lean Specialist at this New Web Site</title>
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		<comments>http://leanconnections.com/2010/nummi-lean-talent-find-your-lean-specialist-at-this-new-web-site#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This free site was created to facilitate the hiring of former NUMMI employees. It is open to former employees and those looking to hire. You can browse the site without registering, but you must create an account to post a &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/nummi-lean-talent-find-your-lean-specialist-at-this-new-web-site">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Making Hospitals Work&#8221; &#8211; Lean HealthCare Executives Drive Lean HealthCare Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book has been on my office credenza for about seven months now and I&#8217;ve only read a few chapters, and skimmed a few others.  But as I become more and more involved in recruiting Lean executives for our Lean HealthCare &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/making-hospitals-work-lean-healthcare-executives-drive-lean-healthcare-results">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making Everyone Whole &#8211; from Jim Womack, Lean Enterprise Institute</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2009/making-everyone-whole-from-jim-womack-lean-enterprise-institute</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Womack&#8217;s newsletter this month, posted here, very clearly explores one of the underlying reasons that Lean or Operational Excellence initiatives are often difficult to sustain (and sometimes even get off the ground).  Every affected stakeholder -whether the executive leadership team recognize it &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2009/making-everyone-whole-from-jim-womack-lean-enterprise-institute">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Build Lean &amp; Operational Excellence Foudation During Times of Stress</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2009/build-lean-operational-excellence-foudation-during-times-of-stress</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuously improving means just that. Nowhere is it written that when things aren&#8217;t so rosy it&#8217;s time to take a break from CI. If your corporate culture has any meaning at all, focusing on Operational Excellence is all the more &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2009/build-lean-operational-excellence-foudation-during-times-of-stress">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Deep Lean</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2009/time-for-deep-lean</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest posting by Andrew Dillon Extraordinary times call on us to look again to the core of the Toyota revolution and how we can make it our own Strange things happen in a crisis. Consider, for example, that some &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2009/time-for-deep-lean">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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