Real Lean: Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two): 2 - Softcover

Emiliani, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972259147 ISBN 13: 9780972259149

Publisher: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The, 2007

Synopsis

In REAL LEAN - Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two), Bob Emiliani helps Lean management practitioners gain a greater awareness of the challenges they face when implementing Lean. In a lively and engaging style, he also provides additional explanation and critical analysis of the purposes, advantages, myths, and misinformation surrounding Lean management. The second volume builds upon the interesting and informative linkages to historical and long-forgotten perspectives that have contributed to the creation of Lean management as we know it today. As with volume one, REAL LEAN emphasizes Lean as a management system and the "Respect for People" principle because both are usually missing from the practice of Lean management today. Managers will find this book easy to read, amazingly insightful, and filled with practical information that will help them better comprehend and put REAL LEAN into practice every day.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972259147
• ISBN 13: 9780972259149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196