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Green Design

Each week as I think about this weekly blog, I try to find a topic that is not only green, but a universal opportunity. What I mean is no...

Quality Management

Recently I’ve seen a financial company misplace $30k, a health care organization twice have a patient end up back in ER and a manufacturer...

Lean Design

Recently while out to dinner my wife Katie talked me into ordering a skinny long island iced tea. It was actually pretty good. Nice taste,...

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Peter Senge wrote one of the best business books of the 1990’s, The Learning Organization. It is one of those on my list to pull off the...

Green Design

The Lean and Green Blog: Avenues to green

Since the beginning of the Builders' Show in Orlando this month, I have learned more in two weeks than most will learn in a year. From the...

Lean Design

I am of two minds today. I have two entirely unrelated topics to discuss: A. Show Village at IBS B. Windows Show Village at IBS...

Customer Satisfaction

IBS 2012 – What you may have missed

The bottom of the market is clearly in and most builders know it, especially those that attended the International Builder Show (IBS) in...

Quality Management

The NHQA is open to home builders, trade contractors and remodelers. Whether you are building production or custom homes, within communities...

Flooring

As the building world concludes another International Builders’ Show, the sentiment shared by many of the attendees was one of hope for a...

Lean Design

Typically I like to save my drama for my mama – not this time. This time I packed it all into this 2,800-square-foot Lean-designed home....

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