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If you look hard enough and try to be aware, you'll see interesting things everywhere. In fact, you might see the Pareto Principle in practice in more
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Most Interesting Lean Guy in The World: Single Piece Flow Edition
Many of you are familiar with the popular commercial brand campaign of Dos Equis meme called the "The Most Interesting Man in the World". So, for fun,
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At times, analysis paralysis and overthinking are just as bad as implementing a solution to the wrong problem. Let me explain. I was in a
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Frequent Quality Checks and False Security of Lot Sampling Statistics
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