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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

I was going through some old files and came across a pocket card we handed out back in 2003 or so. The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. Kent Bowen. All work highly specified as to content, sequence, timing, and outcome. Sometimes that gap is small.

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Nippon Express holds strong presence across the globe

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For example, a French manager is now in charge of the company’s operations in France. That’s not to say the company hasn’t appointed local management for its branch offices. In the United States, the company in 2017 appointed Hassapis, formerly of UTi, who along with Steve Concannon as vice president of U.S. It has done that for years.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

For example, American commentators go so far as saying there is a ‘crisis’ in flagging a range of contemporary preparedness problems within the US Department of Defense including aviation incidents, capability gaps created with lower Defence budgets, and inadequate logistics support to the fielded force.