Adam Lawrence 8/18/25 Adam Lawrence 8/18/25

A Good Story Provides a Good Opportunity

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Adam Lawrence 8/4/25 Adam Lawrence 8/4/25

The Unexpected Benefit

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Adam Lawrence 7/21/25 Adam Lawrence 7/21/25

What do you do when you're the Industry Leader? You Improve.

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Adam Lawrence 6/9/25 Adam Lawrence 6/9/25

Don't Judge a Book by its Cover

Adam Lawrence 3/15/25 Adam Lawrence 3/15/25

Never Tell Someone Their Baby's Ugly

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Adam Lawrence 1/25/25 Adam Lawrence 1/25/25

Aligned Area Owners are the Glue that Holds Things Together - Part 2

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Adam Lawrence 1/11/25 Adam Lawrence 1/11/25

You Can't Help People if you don't Build Trust

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Adam Lawrence 1/2/25 Adam Lawrence 1/2/25

Do Your Due Diligence

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Adam Lawrence 9/12/24 Adam Lawrence 9/12/24

The Bottleneck

The COO loved my work, but couldn't afford to bring me down to his company every week. He challenged me to upskill his employees to take over the Kaizen event responsibilities. Challenge accepted!

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Adam Lawrence 8/29/24 Adam Lawrence 8/29/24

Leadership Commitment in a Challenging Situation

When my team leader came down with COVID, I thought it would be wise to delay the Kaizen event. He wanted to push through and joined us virtually on the first day. Even without him physically in the room with the team, we didn't miss a beat and made some significant improvements.

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Adam Lawrence 8/15/24 Adam Lawrence 8/15/24

Go with your Gut

I bought 200 ninja stress relievers to bring to a conference. My marketing mentor thought it was a bad idea. I decided to make the best of my "bad" investment.

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Adam Lawrence 3/19/24 Adam Lawrence 3/19/24

The Sexiest Man in Pensacola

At the end of every Kaizen event, we created a report out and practiced it before sharing it with the leadership team. Team members were having so much fun that I didn't know if I would still have a job when it was over!

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Adam Lawrence 3/13/24 Adam Lawrence 3/13/24

My First Process Improvement Project

When I started my career, I quickly learned how important it was to spend time out in the process and create good working relationships with the people doing the work. Go to Gemba!

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Adam Lawrence 3/6/24 Adam Lawrence 3/6/24

The First Area Owner at the Furniture Company

When we started the Kaizen event, one of our team members thought we wouldn't accomplish much. In the middle of the week, he stepped up and took charge of a critical improvement area.

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Adam Lawrence 2/28/24 Adam Lawrence 2/28/24

Charting the Course of Critical Information

We thought we had found all of the opportunities in our electronics lab 5S Kaizen. Until we realized that a critical communication was taking so long that the customer was waiting for their results unnecessarily.

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Adam Lawrence 2/21/24 Adam Lawrence 2/21/24

All Night Long

This was my first IT Kaizen event. Our Gemba walk was scheduled from 9 pm Sunday to 1:30 am on Monday. Would the team find breakthroughs and would I be able to say awake?

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Adam Lawrence 1/24/24 Adam Lawrence 1/24/24

Guiding Principles

Once we removed conveyer guides, we improved the performance at the world’s largest ceiling plant.

Once we removed conveyer guides, we improved performance at the world’s largest ceiling tile plant.

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Adam Lawrence 11/29/23 Adam Lawrence 11/29/23

A Random Birthday Message Leads to a Strategic Planning Session

Sending birthday cards to all of my employees surprised them and strengthened our working relationship.

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Adam Lawrence 11/15/23 Adam Lawrence 11/15/23

Weld it in Place to Sustain it

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Before I developed the Wheel of Sustainability, I had to find other ways to sustain our Kaizen solutions. In this case, we used a welder.

Adam Lawrence 10/4/23 Adam Lawrence 10/4/23

Preventing Failures Leads to Success

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Using Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) to help us manage the project led to breakthrough results.

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