Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide for Executives
Language: English
Published by Clbm, LLC, 2008
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- Title
- Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide for Executives
- Author
- Emiliani, Bob
- Publisher
- Clbm, LLC
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0972259155
- ISBN 13
- 9780972259156
- Item weight
- 1.1 pounds
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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