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Lean Building Blog: Should the National Housing Quality Award survive?
Blog Author: Scott Sedam The NAHB in conjunction with Professional Builder Magazine launched the National Housing Quality Award (NHQA) in 1993 to encourage and recognize best practices and best...
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Lean Building Blog: Who has the edge on innovation?
Blog Author: Scott Sedam Last fall the president of one of America’s “Top 10” builders who I have known for years corralled me at a conference. Because I travel this industry about as much as anyone,...
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Lean Building Blog: What to read on Lean
Blog Author: Scott Sedam Today, a sharp young guy named Ryan wrote to me after seeing a Keynote Presentation I did at the recent BuilderExchange meeting in Las Vegas. Two-hundred fifty people attended...
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Lean Building Blog: What Lean isn’t
Blog Author: Scott Sedam During an orientation recently with a room full of suppliers and trades for one of our “LeanPlan Workout” implementations, I was interrupted by a woman who clearly did not...
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Lean Building Blog: How to get ahead in home building by really trying
Blog Author: Scott Sedam My son Tyler (second of 4 children), age 29, is taking a new position with a homebuilder after having two good building industry jobs in the past, both of which vanished in...
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Lean Builder Blog: Do operations still matter on the West Coast?
Blog Author: Scott Sedam I have spoken at PCBC, the big West Coast building conference most of the past 15 years and I always enjoy it. The event has been very well-run, quality of programming is...
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10 steps to mastering field quality – A positive indicator for a recovering...
Blog Author: Scott Sedam The 5th article in my series on Quality Management was just published by Professional Builder Magazine and appears concurrently on www.HousingZone.com. It is titled “10 Steps...
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The rule of 8, 9, 12 but never 16
Blog Author: Scott Sedam Todd Hallett and I are running a LeanPlan Workout session this week in Tennessee with one of my favorite builders. In the years I have known them they have grown from #11 in...
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Election 2012: The elephant in the room for home builders
Blog Author: Scott Sedam I travel this country meeting with builders virtually every week and between my monthly Professional Builder article, my weekly blog on HouzingZone.com and our Lean Building...
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How do you lead a leader? Looking for some answers!
Blog Author: Scott Sedam My December column just came out on HousingZone.com and you can read it here: http://www.housingzone.com/scott-sedam-how-do-you-lead-leader or in the Professional Builder...
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Design for failure
Blog Author: Scott Sedam When I travel with my wife, or sometimes just run to the grocery, cleaners or hardware store, she frequently has to remind me, “Scott, remember, you are NOT in charge here.”...
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Even Lean is local
Blog Author: Scott Sedam It has been long been said that “homebuilding is a local business” and as much as I’d like to think that Lean always transcends locality, that is not always the case. Last...
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