Major League Baseball’s Pace of Play: A Snail-Mail Warning Letter! TAGS: blitz | bud | colorado | commissioner | consulting | ekstrom | innings | joe garagiola jr | july | lean | major league baseball | mike | official | operations | pace of play | process | regulations | rockies | rules | selig | snail mail | sports | up | warming So when we last left off discussing the Major League Baseball pace-of-game regulations, we saw that the league has put an auditing process in place (albeit a questionable one) and …Continue reading →

Toyota Way Principle #10: Develop Exceptional People and Teams TAGS: amare | anthony | basketball | blitz | blueprint | carmelo | consulting | d'antoni | donnie walsh | february | houston | james dolan | jazz | jeremy | knicks | leaders | lean | lin | linsanity | mike | new york | operations | people | philosophy | plan | process | rockets | salary | sports | stoudemire | streak | teams | toyota | utah | way | woodson (This is part of a series of posts about the 14 principles from The Toyota Way. Today we look at The Toyota Way principle 10.) Remember Linsanity? That movement that took New …Continue reading →

Toyota Way Principle #9 and Notre Dame Football TAGS: 2012 | alford | bcs | bearcats | blitz | bob | brian | central | championship | charlie | chippewas | chuck | churn | cincinnati | coach | consulting | cooks | coordinator | dame | davie | defensive | denbrock | diaco | expectations | exposure | fan | football | george | grand | jack | kelly | kerry | lean | management | martin | michigan | mike | nation | notre | o'leary | offensive | operations | optimization | personnel | philosophy | process | program | retain | six sigma | sports | state | success | swarbrick | tony | toyota | tradition | turnover | tyrone | university | valley | way | weis | willingham | winning The 2012 college football season will be the third for Brian Kelly as the head coach of the University of Notre Dame football team. Prior to his hire at Notre …Continue reading →