Lean Leadership on a Napkin An Executive's Guide to Lean Transformation in Three Proven Steps
This very concise and straightforward book is aimed at top executives in virtually any industry who are either new to the concept of Lean and its benefits to them or who have stalled in their transformations and are trying to resurrect their momentum.The book is written in a style that mirrors a typ...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Productivity Press
2021.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009701332406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. In the Beginning
- Some Background
- A Word about Cultural Transitions
- 2. The Introduction Phase
- Typical Dialogue
- End of Dialogue #1
- Story Time: Show Me Your Weed, Man!
- And, While You Are at It, Think about This
- 3. What Do I Need to Know about Lean Leadership?
- Humble Beginnings
- Back to History…
- Little Known Fact: What's in a Name?
- Story Time: Getting Dirty
- Little Known Fact: Unscathed by WWII-Almost.
- Little Known Fact: Mustache Man
- Shifting Market Demand
- Story Time: The GM and Toyota Partnership
- Enter NUMMI
- 4. Lean Speak-Do I Need to Learn Japanese?
- Common Lean Terminology
- Story Time: How Much of Your Job Is Waste?
- Let's Dig a Little Deeper into Value Streams
- Value Streams and Christmas Lights
- 5. Common Lean Tools
- The A3
- Random Thought: The Wit and Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Box 1: Background
- Box 2: Current State
- Box 3: Future State
- Box 4: Analysis
- Let's Look at Each Bone Separately
- Box 5: Proposal
- Box 6: Plan
- Example
- Box 7: Follow-Up
- Andon (Light or Signal Board)
- Story Time: The Lost Screw
- History Lesson
- Poka Yoke
- Story Time: How Did This Happen?
- Kamishibai Boards
- 5S
- Standard Work
- X Matrix
- Spaghetti Diagram
- 6. The Two Pillars of a Lean Culture
- Pillar #1: Respect for People!
- Random Thought
- Random Thought: On Blue-Footed Boobies and Flying Fish
- Let's Look at This Another Way…
- Story Time: The Lone Cypress
- The Secret Sauce
- Discretionary Effort
- Effort vs. Leadership Attention
- Reflection Question: So, What's Left of Your Attention for the Average Workers?
- Random Thought: The Opposite of Love Is?
- The Moral of the Story
- Story Time: Hurricane Sandy.
- Pillar #2: Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)
- Reflection Questions
- 7. What Key Principles Drive a Lean Culture?
- Key Principle #1: Keep It Simple
- Story Time: The Power of Simplicity
- Reflection Questions
- Key Principle #2: Humility
- Reflection Questions
- Key Principle #3: Zero Defects "Mentality"
- Reflection Questions
- Upper Left Box
- Right Work Right (RR): The Golden Zone!
- Upper Right Box
- Right Work Wrong (RW) on the Right Track But Needs Improvement
- Lower Left Box
- Wrong Work Right (WR): A Trap! Improvements Made Here Are a Wasted Effort
- Lower Right Box
- Wrong Work Wrong (WW): STOP NOW! Trash- Poor Quality of No Value
- Story Time: Meaningless Pursuit of Perfection
- Key Principle #4: Add Value to Your Customer
- Story Time: What Business Are We REALLY In?
- An Example
- Reflection Questions
- Other Things to Think About
- Where Does 'Value Creation' Really Come From?
- The Missing Middle
- Key Principle #5: Visual Management (VM)
- Learning from Surfers
- Some Questions
- Random Thought
- Key Principle #6: Make Problems Visible
- Creating a 'Problems First' Mentality
- Story Time: Fail Faster Than Your Competition
- Story Time: First Learn the Rules
- Then Break Them
- My Recommendations
- Reflection Questions
- Key Principle #7: Maintain a Long-Term Perspective
- Reflection Questions
- Key Principle #8: Simplicity
- A Hypothetical …
- On Baseball and Bureaucracy
- Random Thought
- 8. How Will Lean Leadership Affect Me Personally?
- A Word about Personality
- Two Different Approaches to Lean Leadership Transformation
- Another Way to Think about This
- On the Other Side of the Coin …
- Random Thought: Why Do People Get Shorter and Shorter by the Day?
- Story Time: Why Do You Hate That Guy?
- Reflection Questions
- 9. Key Lean Leader Behaviors
- So …
- Will We Make It?.
- Two Strategies
- Two Different Ways to Plan
- 10. What's the One Thing?
- Random Thought
- Story Time: What Can Curly Teach Us?
- Where's the Key Log?
- Building an Operating System
- Daily Management
- 11. What's Next?
- Keeping It Real
- Random Thought: I Can See Things That Don't Exist
- A Slow Ride to Nowhere
- Decision Time
- Random Thought: Who Needs Brakes?
- 12. A Sneak Preview into Part 2-Integration
- Random Thought: What's Happening to Me?
- Your Role in Leading Change
- Random Thought: Cement Mixers
- Key Functions and Relationships to Develop
- HR
- 10 Specific Questions You'll Need to Address with HR
- Manufacturing and Other Front-Line Employees
- Engineering and Design
- Story Time: After the Echo
- Quality
- Supply Chain
- Story Time: Toyota and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
- Random Thought: Howdy Pardner!
- Finance and Accounting
- Sales and Marketing
- Story Time: Watch Your Customers!
- Industry-Specific Notes
- Healthcare: Acute
- Healthcare: Ambulatory
- Construction
- Story Time: Planned Rework? What?
- Law Enforcement
- Story Time: In the Jailhouse
- 13. Some Great Resources
- Forums and Seminars
- Consultants
- Some Professional Forums
- Mailing Lists and Memberships
- Partial Reading List
- Articles
- Index.
