Book Review

Book Review Toyota Way Lean Leadership 0
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- June 4, 2013
You can’t be Lean with Lean Leadership. The tools are easy to copy but without the people and the leadership they are useless. Understanding the people aspect of Toyota is the real challenge, until now. Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis have made this possible with The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership. The combination of Jeff’s
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Book Review: Anatomy of a Lean Leader 0
- Book Review
- May 21, 2013
Are you looking for a Lean leadership model for your organization? In Anatomy of aLean Leader Jerry Bussell draws from his rich lifetime of learning and wealth of stories from the gemba to weave together important lessons from exemplary lean leaders. In his book, Bussell identifies ten characteristics that he claims are essential for a
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Book Review: The Laws of Subtraction 0
- Book Review
- May 7, 2013
Less is indeed more in our age of excess in everything. Our lives have become complicated, overwhelming, and more demanding. Award winning author Matthew E. May has an answer for this in his book The Laws of Subtraction. Subtraction is defined simply as the art of removing anything excessive, confusing, wasteful, unnatural, hazardous, hard to
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Book Review: The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook 0
- Book Review
- April 24, 2013
Any time you are trying to learn something new or you need to jog your memory your will find a reference guide helpful. Mark Eaton, as consultant, author and lean practitioner himself, authored a practical reference guide that will be useful on a day-to-day basis. TheLean Practitioner’s Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and the
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Book Review: Perfecting Patient Journeys 0
- Book Review
- April 17, 2013
Healthcare is undergoing many changes these days which has long been overdue for those of us who have been patients. Lean thinking has been spreading globally for decades in product and service businesses. In the last few years this value stream improvement methodology has been gaining support in health care. Now there is a step
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Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management: Special 100th Birthday Edition 0
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- February 6, 2013
TaiichiOhno’s Workplace Management was directly written by Taiichi Ohno, founder of the Toyota Production System. Many of his writings were transcriptions and interpretations of the man himself, leaving the reader to wonder how accurately it reflected the thoughts of this transformational leader. Jon Miller, both an experienced lean expert and fluent in Japanese, provides this
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