Real Lean: Learning the Craft of Lean Management (Volume Four) - Brossura

Emiliani, Bob

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ISBN 10: 0972259171 ISBN 13: 9780972259170

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

Riassunto

REAL LEAN (Volume Four) reframes Lean as a craft, something executives must practice daily, at the genba, to gain real proficiency, not a set of ideas absorbed from books alone. Continuing the series' emphasis on the too often ignored "Respect for People" principle, this volume gathers the essential facets of the craft that practitioners must master to genuinely succeed.

This book helps readers by:

• Committing To Deliberate Practice. Establishes that Lean mastery, like any craft, demands sustained, disciplined practice, dispelling the fantasy of quick, easy transformation.
• Learning Before Crisis Hits. Urges organizations to build Lean capability when times are good, rather than desperately reaching for it when trouble arrives.
• Developing the Ability to Think. Centers the real work of Lean on developing judgment and reasoning, not memorizing tools.
• Breaking the Cycle of Repeated Errors. Confronts the habit of "making the same mistake" and shows how learning from the past prevents its repetition.
• Refusing to Aim Low. Challenges the modest, unambitious goals that limit results, pushing leaders toward genuinely transformative expectations.
• Recognizing the Eighth Waste. Names behavioral waste – the wasteful, disrespectful behaviors often shown by leaders – as the overlooked eighth waste that quietly undermines Lean.
• Managing the Other Information System. Surfaces the human, informal information system that formal systems miss, and its importance to real improvement.
• Escaping "One Step Forward, Eleven Back." Diagnoses the regressive dynamics that erase hard-won gains and how to counter them.
• Practicing Ethical Management. Frames Lean as an inherently ethical management system, tying "Respect for People" to fairness and non-zero-sum conduct.
• Setting Policies for Learning. Offers concrete organizational policies that institutionalize continuous learning rather than leaving it to chance.
• Answering the Hard Questions. Tackles the pointed questions practitioners must resolve and distills the craft into "Twelve Rules" as a practical capstone.

Concluding with an afterword that ties the first four volumes together, this book treats Lean not as knowledge to acquire but as a discipline to practice for a lifetime. For leaders and practitioners ready to move from reading about Lean to genuinely mastering it, Volume Four is the craftsman's guide.

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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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0972259171
• ISBN 13: 9780972259170
• 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