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		<title>Plant General Manager &#8211; Full Manufacturing P&amp;L + Lean Transformation Champion</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2012/plant-general-manager-full-manufacturing-pl-lean-transformation-champion</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plant GM &#8211; Operations  - Lean Transformation &#8211; full Manufacturing P&#38;L Architectural Building Products &#8211; Newark, NJ metro region Situation Overview Founded in the late 1940’s, and very much the industry pioneer, our client has grown into one of the largest &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2012/plant-general-manager-full-manufacturing-pl-lean-transformation-champion">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Thinking. Lean Doing. Lean Education. At LEI, the Lean Enterprise Institute, the source of Lean thought leadership&#8230;and action.</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2011/lean-thinking-lean-doing-lean-education-at-lei-the-lean-enterprise-institute-the-source-of-lean-thought-leadership-and-action</link>
		<comments>http://leanconnections.com/2011/lean-thinking-lean-doing-lean-education-at-lei-the-lean-enterprise-institute-the-source-of-lean-thought-leadership-and-action#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a Lean Thinker? More importantly, are you a Lean Doer?  Then, think about this Lean career opportunity with LEI, the Lean Enterprise Institute&#8230; Education Manager Organization Background The Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc. founded by James P. Womack in &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2011/lean-thinking-lean-doing-lean-education-at-lei-the-lean-enterprise-institute-the-source-of-lean-thought-leadership-and-action">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>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2011/shingo-award-the-new-critical-criteria-for-hiring-a-lean-leader</link>
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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>Simple Excellence is here&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/simple-excellence-is-here</link>
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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>
		<comments>http://leanconnections.com/2010/simple-excellence-coming-in-good-company-harry-potter-russell-crowe-nook#comments</comments>
		<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>Coca-Cola Appoints Adam Zak to Identify New Director, Operational Excellence</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/coca-cola-appoints-adam-zak-to-identify-new-director-operational-excellence</link>
		<comments>http://leanconnections.com/2010/coca-cola-appoints-adam-zak-to-identify-new-director-operational-excellence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coca-Cola Company has retained Adam Zak Executive Search to handle the recruitiment of a new Operational Excellence Leader for its global business operations.  The Coca-Cola Company has made a no-compromise commitment to driving world class Operational Excellence throughout every &#8230; <a href="http://leanconnections.com/2010/coca-cola-appoints-adam-zak-to-identify-new-director-operational-excellence">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizen Kowboys Ride Again</title>
		<link>http://leanconnections.com/2010/kaizen-kowboys-ride-again</link>
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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>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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