At the beginning of this year, I took up Shotokan karate, partly inspired by my sons, and partly because a failed Personal Kanban experiment last year suggested that I needed to build exercise into my life in a more structured and disciplined way. Two classes of karate per week, and the regular attendance required to [...]
Archive for June, 2011
The Power of Small Thinking
Posted in Personal Kanban, tagged excercise, kaizen, limiting work in progress, metrics, visualization on June 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Teaching Kids Timekeeping with Kanban
Posted in Kidzban, Personal Kanban, tagged avatars, clock, potter, time, weasley on June 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
In my previous post I recounted how our checklist kanban for the kids had helped them internalize their morning and evening schedules for the week. Over time, it had also outgrown its usefulness, at least from my perspective as the primary driver of Mom’s Taxi. Although the kids now knew, mostly without prompting, what they had [...]
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