A 40-Page Business Plan Is Not a Strategy | Eric Ries, Author of "Incorruptible"
Eric Ries had a 40-page business plan. An Excel model so complicated it would crash Excel. A team of elite students.…
"If You Raise the Price, I Will Effing Kill You" -- The Costco Hot Dog Story
A Big Mac cost $1.60 in 1986. Today it's $7. Costco's hot dog and soda combo is still $1.50. When Costco's COO told…
Bob Lutz, Bean Counters, and What Gets Filtered Out
About 13 or 14 years back, I had Bob Lutz on Lean Blog Interviews. He had a book out called Car Guys vs. Bean…
Jamie Flinchbaugh's 4 C's of Trust, Applied to NUMMI
Jamie Flinchbaugh writes about the 4 C's of trust: care, competency, communication, and consistency. One of the jobs…
Why Nobody Went to See Muppets Most Wanted
Joe Hennes of Tough Pigs breaks down why Muppets Most Wanted underperformed at the box office: a title that lost its…
AI Won't Replace Lean Thinking. But It Might Coach You Through It.
Two weeks in a row at the Lean Enterprise Institute Summit in Houston and Shingo Connect in San Diego. Both had a…
Lean Hospitals Coach: An AI Thinking Partner for Better Problem Solving
Most AI tools are built to give quick answers. But in Lean, the thinking is the point. This short explainer introduces…
Chad Diggs on Building Quality Systems, Not Heroes - Lean Blog Interviews
Chad Diggs talks with Mark Graban about Below the Surface and what it takes to build quality systems that don't depend…