"DON'T TAKE THIS HOME WITH YOU"

Those were the prophetic words of warning shared with me by Thomas Morin during my first Lean Kaizen experience. My response? "Are you kidding? I have four kids! This will be great at home!"

I still remember creating a visual process model on the homeschool whiteboard with my wife to identify how the children "should" clean the bathroom (as if knowledge is the problem with a child's heart).

What I didn't think about back then was that I am married to an "All-In" wife. Everything is either 100% or zero. If it is worth doing, dedicate yourself to it. If it is not worth doing, don't even begin.

Thirteen years later, I and my 8 children live in a home dotted with visual work instructions, our cleaning supplies are in a 2-bin pull system, we have health system charting that is the envy of any healthcare provider (and it facilitated the diagnosis of a rare condition with one child), 5S is the only understanding 4 of our children will ever have about home space management, and by the age of 18, every child has 6 years of experience running Ram Charan's strategic execution team meetings.

Susanna is the COO of our home and the greatest organization change manager I have ever known. It may be fair to say that our marriage is a match made in business analyst heaven.

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