Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

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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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 28, 2016

Assessment tools enable people to identify their skills, temperaments, learning styles, thinking styles, and values. This management approach combines a high degree of team-based training, autonomy, decentralized decision making, and responsibility for continuous improvement. Recognize the human need for work/life balance.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

To establish simple and effective management systems without being preoccupied by form, paying particular attention to ensuring checks and actions, and rotating the management cycle rapidly. The Toyota history website includes a view into Toyota’s learning and continual improvement of their management system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

It involves replacing traditional mass manufacturing with “lean manufacturing” principles. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 19, 2012

Every employee is entitled to have a competent manager with the capability to bring value to their problem solving and decision making. The image on the right reflects the ‘ Cascade-of-Planning ’ model or in Lean Manufacturing the Hoshin Kanri used in the Toyota Production System. Contact Mike make your team and leaders better.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In fact, there’s a part of our brains called the seeking system that creates the natural impulses to learn new skills and take on challenging but meaningful tasks. We have a deep desire to use our unique skills and perspectives to make our own decisions about how to help our teams succeed. It’s part of our biology.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net.

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