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After last weeks blog  about the great match up of Lean and custom homes I received the following inspiring "boots on the ground" letter from reader and fellow Leanista Roger Bess:

Todd,

Thanks for the timely post. By coincidence, I had a client with an expensive custom home plan, who was extremely frustrated with his architect, contact me a couple of hours after I read your post. (I do drafting and design work on the side of my day job)(I know, architects probably hate...

Yes we are making lists again!

Make two lists.

In one list the elements of company cultures that you have experienced and liked.

In the other list elements of company cultures that you experienced and did not like.

So you may not have liked the bureaucratic approach in one organization, in another you valued their focus on training and development for example.

When you are done, circle those issues in BOTH lists that you feel honestly reflect YOUR company...

Forming, storming, norming and performing are the four key stages in team formation.

Forming: This is a short lived period when the team initially gets together. The members get to know each other and why the team has been formed.  The team leader is strongly in control at this point.

Storming: At this stage team members frustration will surface, perhaps wanting to get on with the work or not wanting to be on the team or not agreeing with...

Chances are, you’ve never heard of Tony Fadell. But I would bet a very large sum of money (okay, $100) that you’ve heard of his most notable creation. As a young computer science engineer out of the University of Michigan in the 1990s, Fadell was instrumental in the design and development of half a dozen consumer electronic products, including early versions of the tablet computer and PDAs.

But it wasn’t until early 2001 that Fadell would make his mark on the consumer electronics...