Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
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Tag Archives: Mark Graban
Podcast features Adam Zak, Bill Wadell, speaking with Mark Graban on Simple Excellence
Mark Graban hosts today’s LeanBlog Podcast #105, a conversation with the co-authors of the new book Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation from Productivity Press. Authors Adam Zak, a regular guest blogger here on Leanblog.org and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Zak, Bill Waddell, LeanBlog, Mark Graban, Simple Excellence
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No No NO-This is NOT Operational Excellence
Once again the general business press, writing about UC San Francisco, really has this all wrong. This is not Lean Thinking; it is not operational excellence; it is not “transformation.” It is misguided, misleading and, pure and simple, misinformation. And it … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Zak, Continuous Improvement, Human Resources, improvement, improvement effort, improvement efforts, John Plotts, Lean Leaders, Lean Thinking, LeanBlog, Mark Graban, Operational Excellence, operational improvement, personnel cuts, Respect for People, restructuring, Starbucks, uc san francisco, UCSF, University of California San Francisco, wall street journal
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GM April Fools’…oh wait, this is reality
I’ve long been an advocate of Jim Womack’s Lean Transformation principle that “you’ve got to change the people, or you’ve got to change the people” in order to achieve and sustain dramatic improvment in your business. And, as a corporate Executive … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Change Management, Corporate Culture, Executive, Executive Search, Lean, Mark Graban, Talent
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