Real Lean: Unsolved Problems in Lean Management (Volume Six) - Brossura

Emiliani, Bob

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ISBN 10: 0984540008 ISBN 13: 9780984540006

Casa editrice: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The, 2010

Riassunto

REAL LEAN (Volume Six) closes the series by turning a bright, unflinching light on the major problems the Lean community has failed to solve, and offering creative, original countermeasures. It opens with a candid contribution from Art Byrne, the former CEO who led The Wiremold Company's celebrated transformation, reflecting on nearly 30 years of practice and why, despite soaring awareness of Lean, real Lean leaders remain so rare. From there the book diagnoses the field's persistent, self-inflicted failures with characteristic directness.

This book helps readers by:

• Learning From a Master Practitioner. Art Byrne's reflections and a set of reader-contributed problems explain why Lean leadership remains rare despite widespread awareness.
• Exposing the Field's Blind Spots. Diagnoses the flawed reasoning and selective perception that keep Lean practitioners from seeing their own failures.
• Naming Lean's Corruptions. Exposes how Lean degrades in practice, via delegated gemba walks, distorted tools, and the office politics that hollow out "Respect for People."
• Confronting the Zero-Sum Trap. Explains how zero-sum thinking and unintended harm betray Lean's non-zero-sum core.
• Situating Lean in a Bigger Picture. Connects Lean to economics, politics, and the long history of progressive management.
• Sustaining Change Against the Odds. Address why change agents burn out and how to keep genuine, thinking-driven Lean aloft.

Direct, original, and unafraid to name what others avoid, this final volume gives the Lean community its unfinished agenda – the problems that most need work – along with practical, creative ways forward. For serious practitioners, leaders, and scholars, Volume Six is both a fitting capstone to the REAL LEAN series and a challenge to finally solve what the field has long left unsolved.

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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: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0984540008
• ISBN 13: 9780984540006
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 238
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