Real Lean: Strategies for Lean Management Success (Volume 5) explains Lean management in ways that hundreds of other books do not. These original and creative works are written for hands-on Lean practitioners. Each volume is thoroughly researched and well documented, and provides an abundance of new information and perspectives to help ensure success with Lean management.
This fifth volume of the Real Lean series presents a set of fundamental strategies that will help assure Lean management success. They encourage executives to study Lean management history, analyze the failures of other companies, obtain a clearer view of reality at ground-level, better utilize internal and external human resources, and have greater confidence in their ability to become self-reliant in their Lean journey.
As with prior Volumes of Real Lean, Volume Five of emphasizes Lean as a management system and the “Respect for People” principle because both are usually missing from the practice of Lean management today.
Readers will find this book to be 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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Real Lean: Strategies for Lean Management Success (Volume Five)
by Bob Emiliani
The CLBM, LLC Wethersfield, Conn., USA
170 pages / ISBN 978-0-9722591-9-4 / Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.4 inches / January 2010 / Soft Cover / Retail Price $20.00
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Pay Attention to History
- Eighteen Principles of Flow Production
- Toyota's British Influence
- A Message From The Future
2 Learn From Others
- The Toyota Half-Way
- Toyota's Dénouement
3 See Reality
- Lean Mash-Up
- Making Deep Problems Visible
4 Work Together
- Free Money, Free Love
- Pulling Out Saplings
5 Change Your World
- Make or Buy Lean?
Final Thoughts
Appendix I – The Growth Imperative
Appendix II – Lean Writing & Publishing
Appendix III – Lean Mind, New Art
About the Author
Index
