Moving Forward Faster: The Mental Evolution from Fake Lean to REAL Lean - Couverture souple

Emiliani, Bob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0984540016 ISBN 13 : 9780984540013

Editeur : Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The, 2011

Synopsis

Moving Forward Faster distills the six-volume, 1,000-page REAL LEAN series into one compact workbook aimed at the real bottleneck in most Lean efforts: The executive mind. Its premise is blunt: More than 95 percent of organizations that try Lean do it wrong, because senior leaders apply decades-old conventional thinking to a system built on the opposite logic. Through 85 short, pointed items, the book maps the specific economic, social, political, and historical preconceptions and beliefs leaders must shed to evolve from zero-sum "Fake Lean" (continuous improvement only) to win-win "REAL Lean" (continuous improvement and respect for people).

This book helps readers by:

• Uprooting Flawed Economic Beliefs. Identifies the economic ideas leaders must abandon, such as the demand for dangerous double-digit growth, replacing zero-sum, sellers' market assumptions with the stable, customer-driven, buyers' market logic Lean requires.
• Dismantling Harmful Social Beliefs. Confronts the social ideas that break Lean; chiefly the notion that "respecting people is optional" or that "doing harm does no harm," showing why layoffs, squeezing suppliers, and disrespect are fundamentally incompatible with the system.
• Removing Destructive Political Habits. Targets the organizational politics that executives carry over from conventional management, explaining how this wasteful, value-destroying behavior impedes flow and ruins Lean transformations.
• Learning From Repeated History. Shows how the same mistakes recur across decades, so leaders can recognize the patterns that have derailed progressive management before and avoid repeating them.
• Turning Insight into Movement. The "Next Steps" and "Closing Thoughts" sections convert the 85 items into forward motion, with appendices on Lean and Keynes, how conservatism fails customers, moving from reading to improving, and failure analysis of management decisions.

Deliberately short and workbook-style, this is a reflective, high-density read designed to change how executives think and what they do. For leaders and practitioners frustrated that tool and behavior training never produces true Lean leaders, Moving Forward Faster offers a distilled, honest map of the mental evolution that real transformation demands.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0984540016
• ISBN 13: 9780984540013
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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