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03/12/2026

In this week's post, Lean East Founder Steve Musica shares his 10 Rules for Life in the hope that they will help you improve and maximize your life!

https://www.leaneast.com/10-rules-for-life

Lean East Founder Steve Musica shares his "10 Rules for Life" in the hope that these 10 rules will help you improve and maximize your life.

03/10/2026

Whether you’re finalizing a vendor contract or navigating a complex internal rollout, we’ve all felt that "tug-of-war" tension at the bargaining table. In our latest Lean East blog post, we explore how to transform negotiation from a stressful confrontation into a high-flow Lean process.

If you’re looking to sharpen your communication toolkit and ensure your next agreement is a true Win-Win, this guide is your starting line.

https://www.leaneast.com/effective-negotiation

03/05/2026

This summary will cover the three phases of a business's growth as described in The Entrepreneurial Myth (E-Myth) Revisited. These three phases are Infancy, Adolescence, and Maturity!

https://www.leaneast.com/e-myth

The Entrepreneurial Myth (E-Myth) Revisited by Michael Ge**er. Learn why most small businesses don’t work, and what to do about It.

03/03/2026

Lean East Principal, Steve Musica, was the speaker for a full-day session to support for 15 member organizations in the Maine Association for Community Service Providers. We are excited to help these great teams improve! !

02/26/2026

Check out our summary of Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen! This book introduces the innovative concept of Jobs Theory, a new way of thinking (related to design thinking) the authors believe will revolutionize innovation.

https://www.leaneast.com/competing-against-luck

Lean East summarizes Clayton Christensen's "Competing Against Luck," the story of innovation and customer choice that introduces jobs theory.

02/24/2026

Is the universe a cosmic coincidence or intentional design?

We summarize Mo Gawdat’s 2017 book, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy. Gawdat shares six “grand illusions,” seven “blind spots”, and five “ultimate truths” in his very thought-provoking book on happiness.

https://personalkaizen.co/reasons-grand-designer

We examine an engineer’s reasons and argument for the existence of a Grand Designer (God) from Mo Gawdat’s book, “Solve for Happy.”

02/24/2026

East Principal Musica just completed training workshops on "Lean Thinking" for the Roofing team. We are now helping the team complete a process improvement workshop focused on removing wastes for an improved customer experience!

02/23/2026

At Lean East, we've developed the PERFORMANCE™ Process — a step-by-step framework that helps your organization align from the inside out.

Click below for your FREE assessment and see where your organization stands and where you need to focus on improvement! 📊

https://www.leaneast.com/high-performance-assessment

Learn about the Lean East PERFORMANCE™ Process and take our FREE Assessment to find out if your organization is high-performing.

02/19/2026

Every Lean expert will tell you that continuous flow of value is the goal of a Lean process. Batching work is the opposite of continuous flow, yet most people batch jobs because they feel it is more efficient. So if batching is more efficient, are the Lean experts wrong? Here's our take!

https://www.leaneast.com/continuous-flow

Lean East shares the benefits of trying to achieve continuous process flow - completing one-piece at a time rather than batching to see wastes.

02/12/2026

Jim Collins and Morten Hansen once asked “Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and some do not?” We break this down based on evidence provided in their book Great by Choice!

https://www.leaneast.com/great-by-choice

Lean East shares 4 key leadership behaviors from the Jim Collins book Great by Choice for 10X leaders to thrive amidst uncertainty and chaos.

02/11/2026

Learn about the Lean East PERFORMANCE™ Process and take our FREE Assessment to find out if your organization is high-performing.

https://www.leaneast.com/high-performance-assessment

Leadership, Improvement, Transformation, Problem Solving, Strategic Planning, Book Reviews - Lean East Blog

02/03/2026

East is excited to be facilitating the second year of the "Patriot Pathfinders" development program for 12 Insurance employees and mentors. Learn more about our training at: www.myleaderjourney.com