Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

Here are five reasons: Companies Invest in Lean Management, Creating Lean-Related Jobs. GE initially invested $432 million in the United States to develop “ centers of excellence ” that practice lean manufacturing. Lean management simply expands the opportunities for job seekers qualified for senior executive positions.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 28, 2016

Educate, inform, and listen to employees. Educating, informing, and listening to employees enhance their sense of value. Chances are it has been a tool to help leaders build a well-balanced team of people based on their personality types. This is a good start. Decentralization gained momentum when Peter Drucker persuaded Alfred P.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. He also had a profound way with words.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

Dan also discusses the primacy good lean efforts (as Deming bases efforts also do) put on creating systems that enable people to create value for the organization. The organization must both give them the opportunity to take joy in their work and also provide the training, education and opportunity to learn and grow.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Ordinarily, experts — I use that word broadly — either try to make their expertise more accessible to the target audience or try to "educate" or "train" people into understanding and acceptance. But there's a crucial difference. Or is it an expressive wardrobe that assures a memorable show?

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