Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide For Executives - Brossura

Emiliani, Bob

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ISBN 10: 0972259155 ISBN 13: 9780972259156

Casa editrice: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The, 2008

Riassunto

Practical Lean Leadership tackles the reason most Lean efforts stall: Leaders run them using the same conventional, zero-sum beliefs and behaviors they always had. The answer is to treat Lean leadership as more science than art, making the abstract concrete through step-by-step workbook-style development process built on new ideas and practices. Rooted in real management experience rather than theory, it gives executives specific, actionable ways to practice both Lean principles, "Continuous Improvement" and the too-often-ignored "Respect for People."

This book helps readers by:

• Correcting What Lean Really Means. Establishes Lean as a comprehensive, human-centered management system anchored in both key principles and the non-zero-sum logic executives must adopt.
• Rewiring How Leaders Think. Contrasts conventional and Lean mindsets, showing that Lean transformation starts with the beliefs that drive a leader's every decision.
• Redefining Leadership Itself. Offers a better, more tangible definition of leadership, one grounded in the workplace and Lean practice rather than vague notions of charisma or art.
• Making Behaviors Concrete. Introduces Lean Behaviors® and Behavioral Waste®, teaching leaders to distinguish value-added behaviors from waste and pursue continuous personal improvement.
• Turning a Tool into a Mirror. Cleverly repurposes value stream maps as a leadership development tool, mapping the gap between conventional and Lean leadership beliefs, behaviors, and competencies.
• Demystifying Kaizen for Executives. Tells leaders exactly what they need to know about kaizen; their role in it and why participation, not delegation, matters.
• Standardizing Executive Work. Applies standardized work to leadership, offering a standard executive skill set and a way to avoid the common errors in executive decision-making.
• Flagging Fifty Errors to Avoid. Catalogs fifty specific leadership mistakes that derail Lean, giving readers a concrete checklist of what not to do.
• Making Leadership Visible. Adapts visual controls for leaders, surfacing leadership performance problems the way Lean surfaces problems on the floor.
• Closing The Loop with Feedback. Provides a performance-feedback method so leaders can measure and continuously improve their own Lean leadership.

Structured as a hands-on workbook with questions and exercises after each chapter, this is a first foundational step on the journey from conventional leader to credible Lean leader. For executives who sense that Lean tools training never produced real Lean leaders, Practical Lean Leadership offers a specific, practical, and demanding path grounded in what actually happens in the workplace every day.

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L'autore

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.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0972259155
• ISBN 13: 9780972259156
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 150
• Contatto del produttore: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Lussemburgo