Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
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Tag Archives: Respect for People
Think Lean to Prevent Executive Defections
Perhaps you too have seen the recent survey by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB). Looks like 25% or so of the executives whom surveyed companies have identified as “high-potential” leaders plan to exit their respective companies within the next 12 months. Oops! (Not … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate executive board, Executive Defections, Lean Leaders, Lean Thinking, progressive organizations, Respect for People
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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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Making Everyone Whole – from Jim Womack, Lean Enterprise Institute
Jim Womack’s newsletter this month, posted here, very clearly explores one of the underlying reasons that Lean or Operational Excellence initiatives are often difficult to sustain (and sometimes even get off the ground). Every affected stakeholder -whether the executive leadership team recognize it … Continue reading
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Tagged Change Management, executive leadership team, Hippocratic, hippocratic corpus, improvement, improvement effort, jim womack, Leadership, Lean, Lean Beyond Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, lean enterprise institute, Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, optimality, Pareto, Respect for People, stakeholder, Sustainability, Sustainable Enterprise
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