Have you ever thought about how:
- Organizational politics (behavioral waste) turns bad ideas into good ideas, and good ideas into bad ideas?
- Traditional team-building exercises fail to correct illogical thinking and eliminate organizational politics, while kaizen succeeds?
- We might be more successful advancing Lean if we got executive assistants to tell the boss to practice Lean every day?
- The eighth waste, the waste of unused human talent, is a symptom and not the root cause?
- Business in a crisis does Lean, and government in a crisis does Keynes?
- Lean doves, who think a little Lean is too much, still manage to control Lean hawks, who think there is not enough Lean?
- A sushi chef could obsess over continuous improvement more than Fortune 500 CEOs?
- Seductive Fifty Shades of REAL Lean would be?
- True believers still seek economies of scale, and end up overproducing and creating microeconomic recessions?
- Six sigma makes Lean management, itself a huge challenge, even more difficult?
- Blaming people for problems and intolerance for dissent expands information inventories?
- The “Respect for People” principle encodes non-zero-sum (win-win) thinking into every corner of Lean management?
- The entire Lean playbook is now public knowledge, yet few leaders are fully committed to it and do it well?
- Top business schools remain relevant when they insist on teaching conventional management?
- Economists still think batch-and-queue is superior to flow?