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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2015

Leading Blog

Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno : What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System by Takehiko Harada. Intelligent Disobedience : Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong by Ira Chaleff. The Achievement Habit : Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth.

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Using Technology to Improve The Sharing of Knowledge

Curious Cat

I grew up surrounded by those seeking to improve management (Bill Hunter, George Box, Brian Joiner, Peter Scholtes…). As I moved into high school Dad was doing much more direct management consulting (it was also a combination of statistics, engineering and management but the emphasis shifted over time) based on Deming’s ideas.

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The Lean Startup: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

First Friday Book Synopsis

Years ago, Jon Katzenbach told me that the greatest challenge that change agents face is changing their ideas about change. The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen (??)

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