Lean Transformation for Competitive Advantage
As businesses look for global opportunities to achieve sustained performance and improved operational and financial results, they often undertake transformation initiatives. Successful Lean transformation involves technical change, and even more importantly, cultural change. It is in this cultural transformation component that leadership plays a critical role. Your leadership team must create the Lean vision, then energize and enable your organization to achieve it.
My new book, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning Your Management Team in a Lean Transformation, is intended to help readers reflect on strategic goals, assess where and how Lean fits into their overall business strategy, align their leadership teams with that strategy, and communicate their sponsorship and support of Lean.
As Bob Barker, President of Parker Aerospace notes: “I will be making this book a must read for my staff. Simple Excellence helps to reinforce that what we are working on here at Parker Hannifin is the right stuff.”
I hope you’ll consider taking a closer look at Simple Excellence and its concept of operationally excellent leadership – leadership of the highest integrity, which aligns action with purpose, practices respect for people, promotes transparency, and demands accountability.
Thanks for reading. Adam
