Category: Lean joy
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Few people know is that Bill Gates first company was a failure. A business called Traf-O-Data was designed to process and analyze data from traffic tapes. The business never took off. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” Bill Gates Traf-O-Data was a business partnership between…
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Grab one tennis ball with the right hand and another tennis ball with the left hand. Imagine a horizontal line a little above your eye level. Throw the ball from the right hand towards the height of the imaginary line so that it would fall in your left hand. When the ball reaches the imaginary…
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Interestingly, the prominent and highly innovative enterprise called Amazon started as relentless.com. This website and business idea was, to a certain extent, a failure. Type relentless.com into your web browser, and you will still land on Amazon’s website. Relentless still represents the mindset within the organization. Even though Amazon has reinvented numerous business models, its…
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One day, the sensei asked his two students:“You both, go into the factory and look for what has to be improved. Please, spend the day on the shopfloor and tell me what you find. Is there something we can improve? Something we can do better? I want to hear from you.” And just so, the…
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I am giving away 100 copies of my brand new Kindle E-Book “The Quest for Innovation”. Hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it. Goodreads Book Giveaway The Quest for Innovation by Ferdinand Huber Giveaway ends July 17, 2022. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
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Trying to set up a home office in virtual reality.
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Grandma’s cookbook looks old, it has been used a hundred times. Some loose pages are recipes cut out from newspapers or magazines. There are also text marks, highlighted parts, paper clips identifying the most important passages. Several of the original ingredients have been crossed out and replaced by new ones. In other cases, quantities have…
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Continuous Improvement is simple, but it only can happen once you stop procrastinating. Procrastinating means to put off things that you want to do, but you just don’t do it, for whatever reason – lack of time, lack of energy, lack of motivation. Probably every person in the world had some or all of these…
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