REAL LEAN, Volume Five
Insightful essays on Lean leadership and Lean management.
Real Lean: Strategies for Lean Management Success (Volume 5) presents a set of strategies that will help assure Lean management success. This small book will be a big help to leaders who want to improve their understanding and practice of Lean management. In a lively and engaging style, Real Lean answers key questions that leaders of organizations have about Lean management. It is a perfect read for busy executives.
This volume encourages 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. And don’t forget to read REAL LEAN Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.
Reviews of Real Lean
The books comprising the “Real Lean” series by Bob Emiliani are masterful and important.
Brian Maskell, President, BMA Inc.
All are easy to read books full of insight, original thinking combined with a no-nonsense direct message to all interested in Lean Management that must be understood if Lean Management is going to survive in your company and in industry in general. This volume has many take away lessons that hit a range of current and important business areas.
Jon Miller, CEO, Kaizen Institute
…full of insight, original thinking combined with a no-nonsense direct message to all interested in Lean Management that must be understood if Lean Management is going to survive in your company and in industry in general. This volume has many take away lessons that hit a range of current and important business areas…
John Kimball, Ametek
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Book Details
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 • January 2010
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
