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How to Get Continuing Results with Job Instruction
This blog post submitted by Boyd Rice, Vice President of Global Lean Performance System at S&C Electric Company The principles of Job Instruction are

Filling the Knowledge Gap: Competency = Knowledge + Skill + Behavior
NOTE: This article was authored by Oscar Roche, Director of the TWI Institute Australia. How often do we teach someone to do something and

Respect for People: The Timeless Principles of TWI Job Relations
NOTE: The following post was authored by Boyd Rice of S&C Electric Company and was a featured presenter at the annual TWI Summit. The

Zambian Internship
By Garek Huntzinger
In June of 2017, I spent a little over five weeks in Zambia, Africa on a self-led internship. I left home on May 25th, and got home on July 6th. This was my forth time visiting Africa, but the first time I stayed more than two weeks and the first time I worked there. The previous times had been visits with my father and sister. We were visiting the Enrights. My family has been close friends with them for many years. While I worked on their farm called Rivendell, I learned many things about the culture in Zambia, and how different …

Self-Creating Capital with help from Lean and the Free Market
by Jim Huntzinger
In July 2016, my children and I returned to Zambia, Africa. The changes seem to come slow with each trip but they also come with a significant impact. The honey business is booming and has been doubling in output with each harvest (there are approximately 2.5 harvests per year). Sales internal to Zambia and several surrounding countries have substantially increased, as well as contracts with European export. As a result, the number of villagers earning income from honey harvests has increased to over 17,000; …

Spreading Hope by Creating Wealth
by Jim Huntzinger
In August 2009 and August 2013 my children and I spent two weeks in Zambia, Africa. We were visiting and helping some close family friends that are missionaries. John and Kendra Enright are not typical missionaries. While they do have a very nice training center, the Kafakumba Training Center, which is used for a pastor school, family activities and other community events, the main focus and thrust of their work is setting up indigenous economic development. John has always…

Leaning Outside of Work
by Linn Asbury
Even with a teensy knowledge of LEAN, you’ll know about the method called the “Five Why’s”; it is used to explore cause and effect relationships underlying a specific problem. I’m blessed to be involved in a mission project doing community transformation work in a remote, impoverished part of western Kenya in the village of Kager.