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Five Reasons Job Seekers Should Study Lean Management

Lead Change Blog

Even seasoned senior managers look to continually enhance their skill sets to differentiate themselves from other job seekers. Management job seekers with lean management experience can separate themselves from the competition. Here are five reasons: Companies Invest in Lean Management, Creating Lean-Related Jobs.

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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business Review

We have a deep desire to use our unique skills and perspectives to make our own decisions about how to help our teams succeed. For example, employees in a white-goods manufacturing plant in Italy learned about lean manufacturing by playing with Legos rather than cooktops.

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Break the Cycle

Deming Institute

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. He commented on the self-described qualities and skills of the senior managers he had guided. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute.

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Everybody Thinking, Learning and Doing

Deming Institute

Brian Joiner also expressed this idea well : Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between “cost cutting” and “eliminating the causes of costs.”. That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products.

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