Real Lean: Strategies for Lean Management Success (Volume Five) - Couverture souple

Emiliani, Bob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0972259198 ISBN 13 : 9780972259194

Editeur : Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The, 2010

Synopsis

REAL LEAN (Volume Five) Answers a focused question: What strategies actually separate successful Lean leaders from the rest? Drawing on decades of practice, teaching, and historical study, the book identifies five recurring executive failings – indifference to history, ignoring others' failures, detachment from ground-level reality, poor use of people, and low confidence in self-reliance – and turns each into a concrete strategy, illustrated by sharp, practical essays. As always, the tone is direct and the facts are laid bare.

This book helps readers by:

• Paying Attention to History. Shows how today's problems mirror those solved a century ago by Taylor, Gilbreth, Ford, and Woollard so leaders stop assuming their experience is unique.
• Learning from Others' Failures. Examines where even Toyota faltered, and teaching executives to study others' mistakes rather than repeat them.
• Seeing Reality at the Gemba. Confronts executive detachment, showing how to surface the deep, hidden problems that abstraction and distance conceal.
• Working Together, Non-Zero-Sum. Tackles the failure to use internal and external human resources well, reinforcing the "Respect for People" principle and collaborative, win-win improvement.
• Changing Your World Through Self-Reliance. Builds the confidence and capability executives need to lead their own Lean journey rather than outsourcing it.

Rounded out with final thoughts and appendices on the growth imperative, Lean writing and publishing, and creativity, this volume reframes Lean success as a matter of strategy and mindset, not tools. For practitioners and executives who want a practical, historically grounded set of strategies, Volume Five offers five clear paths to becoming a more successful Lean leader.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

M.L. "Bob" Emiliani is a professor at Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn., where he teaches various courses on Lean management. Prior to that Bob worked in the consumer products and aerospace industries for nearly two decades. He held management positions in engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management, and had responsibility for implementing Lean in manufacturing operations and supply chains. He has authored or coauthored over a dozen papers related to Lean leadership including: "Lean Behaviors" (1998), "Linking Leaders' Beliefs to their Behaviors and Competencies" (2003), "Using Value Stream Maps to Improve Leadership" (2004), "Origins of Lean Management in America: The Role of Connecticut Businesses" (2006), and "Standardized Work for Executive Leadership" (2008). Five of his papers have won awards for excellence. Bob is also the author of Better Thinking, Better Results: Case Study and Analysis of an Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation (second edition) published in 2007; Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide for Executives published in 2008; REAL LEAN: Understanding the Lean Management System (Volume One) published in 2007; REAL LEAN: Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two) published in 2007; REAL LEAN: The Keys to Sustaining Lean Management (Volume Three) published in 2008; REAL LEAN: Learning the Craft of Lean Management (Volume Four) published in 2008; REAL LEAN: Strategies for Lean Management Success (Volume Five) published in 2010; REAL LEAN: Unsolved Problems in Lean Management (Volume Six) published in 2010; and Moving Forward Faster published in 2011. Bob earned engineering degrees from the University of Miami, University of Rhode Island, and Brown University.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The REAL LEAN series of books 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. The fifth volume of the REAL LEAN series presents a set of fundamental strategies that will help assure Lean management success. These strategies 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 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0972259198
• ISBN 13: 9780972259194
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
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