Lean Blog: Sports

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • What is Lean?
  • About this Compilation
• 1 Baseball
  • 1.1 The Culture of Winning — Baseball and Lean
  • 1.2 Standard Work for Baseball Umpires??
  • 1.3 Long-Term vs Short-Term in Sports
  • 1.4 Safety, Quality (Starts), Delivery (to the Plate), and Coaches
  • 1.5 Waste in the New Yankee Stadium Layout?
  • 1.6 Washington “Natinals” Error
  • 1.7 World Series Defect: Wrong Pitcher
  • 1.8 ‘Moneyball’ Lessons – Listen to Your Front-Line Staff
  • 1.9 Blame the Stanford Kicker! Blame the Kicker?
  • 1.10 A Lean Guy Watches Moneyball
  • 1.11 Guest Post: Talking Lean at the Baseball Winter Meetings
  • 1.12 Failure to Follow Process Leads to NL MVP’s Suspension Being Overturned
  • 1.13 Robert Andino of the Baltimore Orioles & Dr. W. Edwards Deming
  • 1.14 Guest Post: Lacking Baseball Specs Leads to Offensive Explosion (and MLB Scouting Problems)
  • 1.15 Stephen Strasburg & the Washington Nationals – Long Term vs. Short Term
• 2 Football
  • 2.1 Lack of Clear Visual Controls and Training in the NFL
  • 2.2 NFL Kaizen
  • 2.3 Lessons from Northwestern Football
  • 2.4 How Much of Football is VA?
  • 2.5 Learning from Super Bowl Coaches
  • 2.6 The Cost of Unsold Uniform Inventory
  • 2.7 The Patriots are like Toyota?
  • 2.8 Sunday Night Muda
  • 2.9 The Sun Devil Suggestion System
  • 2.10 “Not Conducive to Suggestions”
  • 2.11 American-Made Footballs in the Super Bowl
  • 2.12 Reducing the Waste of Waiting in the NFL Draft
  • 2.13 A Funny Example of Not Delivering “Value”?
  • 2.14 Another Uniform Inventory Story
  • 2.15 Taking Responsibility for Mistakes – On the Field, and Off
  • 2.16 More Proof that Exhortations Don’t Work?
  • 2.17 Great Piece on the Failings of Incentives
  • 2.18 One Purple Audacious Goal…
  • 2.19 Jerry Jones is NOT a Lean Thinker, Apparently?
  • 2.20 Only 11 Minutes of Value in an NFL Game?
  • 2.21 Safety First – Even at a Northwestern Football Game?
  • 2.22 Individual NFL Player Incentives – Why Are They Necessary? Do They Distort the Game?
  • 2.23 Super Bowl Footballs – Made in America (Ohio!)
  • 2.24 Coach Vince Lombardi on Striving for Perfection
  • 2.25 So What If You Don’t Have Stats for Offensive Lineman?
  • 2.26 “Like Lean” – NY Jets Coach Rex Ryan
  • 2.27 Coaching, not Berating, when Mistakes are Made
  • 2.28 BCS & College Football Coaches Poll Shenanigans – Bad Voters or Bad System?
  • 2.29 Visiting and Teaching at Ohio State – Meeting Archie Griffin, Reflecting on Values and Winning
  • 2.30 Alabama Coach Nick Saban - National Champion & Lean Thinker?
  • 2.31 Error Proofing an NFL Coach
  • 2.32 Rob Gronkowski’s Back Surgery and Post-Op Infections
  • 2.33 Denver Bronco Loses Touchdown for Not Following Standardized Work
• 3 Basketball
  • 3.1 The NBA Not Involving Its Employees?
  • 3.2 NBA Listens to Employees
  • 3.3 NBA’s David Stern on Listening
  • 3.4 Bad Systems in the News: NBA
  • 3.5 “Bad Systems in the News” Update
  • 3.6 Lean Elements in NCAA Hoops?
  • 3.7 NVA in the NBA — It’s “Value Added”-tastic?
  • 3.8 Leadership Thoughts from Late Great Detroit Pistons
  • 3.9 Are Slogans Always Bad or Can They Inspire?
  • 3.10 NBA Has Learned Its Lesson?
  • 3.11 Do Good Coaches Brush Off Feedback from the Team as Whining?
  • 3.12 Standardized, but Not Identical – College Basketballs
• 4 Hockey
  • 4.1 Suboptimizing the New NHL Uniforms?
  • 4.2 NHL Backing Off like the NBA Did?
  • 4.3 How the Gold Medal Puck Was Almost Lost
  • 4.4 No Joke: Lean Methods Applied by a Hockey Coach in Ontario
  • 4.5 Learning to See (and Spell) in the NHL
• 5 Miscellaneous Sports
  • 5.1 Quick Changeover for American Airlines Center
  • 5.2 Not following the “Standard” lets an athlete off the hook?
  • 5.3 Changing Glass vs. Pouring a Glass
  • 5.4 I’d Like to “5S” the Wimbledon TV Broadcast Screen
  • 5.5 Matthew May’s Encounter with Tiger & Goals of Perfection
  • 5.6 Guest Post: Finding Waste at the Stadium
• Mark Graban
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