Real Lean: The Keys to Sustaining Lean Management (Volume Three) gets into the details of how to sustain the Lean management system. He takes a deep dive and offers many surprising and even jarring new insights. It shows that the Lean community has, for decades, severely misunderstood and underestimated the challenge of getting executives to adopt Lean management.
This volume clearly explains why sustainability is so elusive in ways that have not been examined before, and provides answers to the question of why the "Respect for People" principle is so often missing. It will be a big help to executives preparing for the inevitable challenges associated with sustaining Lean management.
Readers will find this book immensely helpful in understanding the sustainability problem, and it provides a wealth of new information on what to do about it. The book will also help executives better understand and practice the Lean management system.
As with Volumes One and Two, Volume Three of Real Lean emphasizes Lean as a management system and the “Respect for People” principle because both are usually missing from the practice of Lean management today.
Managers will find this book easy to read, amazingly insightful, and filled with practical information that will help them better comprehend and put REAL LEAN into practice every day.
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"A remarkable contribution. Real Lean Volume 3 reads well and the content is very sound... The 14 executive decision points seem they would be sufficient when well done to sustain Lean."
Real Lean: The Keys to Sustaining Lean Management (Volume Three)
by Bob Emiliani
The CLBM, LLC Wethersfield, Conn., USA
176 pages / ISBN 978-0-9722591-6-3 / Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.4 inches / June 2008 / Soft Cover / Retail Price $20.00
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue
Introduction
1 The Long-Wave Current State
2 Shortcuts to Wealth
3 Problems, Conflicts, and Costs
4 Diving to the Bottom
5 Sharing is Fundamental
6 We Need Good Students
7 Sustaining the Lean Management Movement
8 Closing Thoughts
Endnotes
Appendix I – The Equally Important "Respect for People" Principle
Appendix II – Caux Round Table Principles for Business
Index
