Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
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Tag Archives: Leadership
Lean Leadership Shortage Coming Soon to a Company Near You!
Last week’s published numbers indicate a national unemployment rate approaching 9.5%. Bad news, right? Or, maybe not as much as the the nightly news would have us all believe. If you happen to be an executive or manager with strong Lean or Lean … Continue reading
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Tagged Accenture, Adam Zak, Business, BusinessWeek, cooper industries, Executive, Executive Recruiting, fpl group, Genzyme, Human Resources, Leadership, Lean, Lean and Green, Lean Leaders, lean sigma, manufacturing, marvin windows, Medtronic, Operational Excellence, Pentair, presidents and vice presidents, recession, Recruiting, siemens energy, Talent, talent war, Textron, textron systems, tyco electronics
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Build Lean & Operational Excellence Foudation During Times of Stress
Continuously improving means just that. Nowhere is it written that when things aren’t so rosy it’s time to take a break from CI. If your corporate culture has any meaning at all, focusing on Operational Excellence is all the more … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Culture, economic downturn, economic times, growth, growth and profitability, jim womack, Leadership, Lean, Lean Enterprise, lean enterprise institute, Lean Leaders, lean management, lean principles, management culture, Ohno, Operational Excellence, Production, Productivity, Toyota Production System, transformation
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Time for Deep Lean
A guest posting by Andrew Dillon Extraordinary times call on us to look again to the core of the Toyota revolution and how we can make it our own Strange things happen in a crisis. Consider, for example, that some … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Culture, Continuous Improvement, core values, jim womack, Kaizen, Leadership, Lean Enterprise, Lean Leaders, Lean Manufacturing, Organizational Culture, Production, Sensei, Sustainability, Toyota Production System
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