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Back to Basics | 5 Toyota Principles That Turn Businesses
In this article, I share 5 5 Toyota principles that turn businesses around like clockwork and how to apply them to your business.
Richard Kunst
Mar 194 min read


7 Deadly Sins of Sales Forecasting (reprint from Demand Solutions)
Forecasts should always be considered incorrect, even though a stopped clock will be correct twice per day.
Richard Kunst
Jan 126 min read


New Year, New Beginnings
Maybe they fear if they train the team they will leave, but worse is if you don't train them and they stay !
Richard Kunst
Dec 27, 20242 min read

Unlocking Business Potential: The Impact of Process Improvement Strategies
business process improvement (BPI) strategy is one such opportunity to improve the way your business works and expedite desired outcomes.
Richard Kunst
Dec 15, 20244 min read

What is your Employee Retention Plan ?
Anyone running a business today knows how difficult it is to attract and retain their people.
Richard Kunst
Nov 27, 20242 min read

What is On-Time Delivery ?
I appreciate your concern as a KPI it should also be acting as a contingent trigger for action.
Richard Kunst
Oct 31, 20245 min read


How do you run your Organization? Founder Mode or Manager Mode
there are in effect two ways to run a company: Founder Mode and Manager Mode
Richard Kunst
Oct 8, 20244 min read


There are 6 Lean strategies every business owner should know.
Here are the six key Lean strategies that can transform your operations:
Richard Kunst
Oct 8, 20242 min read

Check your Guages
“Low visibility” for many leaders and disorientation can easily occur as you find yourself constantly adapting to changing conditions.
Richard Kunst
Jul 2, 20243 min read

One More Time --- The Things That Kill “Going Lean Successfully”
No clear understanding of all intra-relationships
Richard Kunst
Jun 15, 20242 min read

Behavioral Design
Behavioral design is not about using psychology to manipulate people. It’s about using psychology to help people achieve their goals.
Richard Kunst
May 19, 20242 min read

The Role of Innovation in Achieving a Competitive Advantage
There is a statistically significant relationship between the elements of innovation and competitive advantage in businesses.
Richard Kunst
May 1, 20245 min read

Problem to Solve? Take it to Morning Market.
Problems, Problems, Problems, we all have them. Morning Market help you organize them for successful resolution.
Richard Kunst
Apr 23, 20243 min read

Pessimist or Opportunistic?
Relationships and Trust are huge factors to both success and survival.
Richard Kunst
Apr 7, 20244 min read


Foundation PROCESS EXCELLENCE Thoughts
When doing a transformation in an existing organization a leader has had a mind blowing experience after visiting a well organized plant.
Richard Kunst
Mar 24, 20243 min read

The Dreaded Shift Exchange
Best time on the floor is 30 minutes before shift end and first 30 minutes at start, when you typically hear nothing.
Richard Kunst
Mar 17, 20242 min read


Food Loss and Waste should not become Animal Feed so embrace FSSC 22000 Version 6.0
wandering through the grocery store? Do you pause, stare and wonder will they ever sell all of this produce before it spoils?
Richard Kunst
Mar 10, 20244 min read


Let's define Employee Empowerment
Why Baseball? The game has all of the attributes needed to define Employee Empowerment.
Richard Kunst
Mar 3, 20243 min read

COLLABORATION – part of your Vision
Collaboration is an allergy that exists in nearly every organization.
I cannot explain why … but it exists internally and externally …
Richard Kunst
Jan 28, 20244 min read

INITIATIVE is a rare trait
seeing an opportunity to leverage without taking initiative becomes a lost opportunity.
Richard Kunst
Jan 21, 20243 min read
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