This fourth and final volume of the REAL LEAN series brings Lean full circle. It shows how Lean management is itself a craft that can only be learned as any other craftsman would learn their trade.

Few people understand Lean management in the context of a craft, including the best Lean practitioners and Lean thinkers external to Toyota.

This unique perspective creates a much clearer impression of what executives need to do in order to become Lean leaders. Their learning must be much deeper than they might have imagined, but the result will be much better than they would have expected.

As with prior Volumes of REAL LEAN, Volume Four of emphasizes Lean as a management system and the “Respect for People” principle because both are usually missing from the practice of Lean management today.

Readers will find this book to be amazingly insightful and filled with practical information that will help them better comprehend and put REAL LEAN into practice every day.

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REAL LEAN
Learning the Craft of Lean Management
(Volume Four)

by Bob Emiliani
The CLBM, LLC Wethersfield, Conn., USA

152 pages / ISBN 978-0-9722591-7-0 / Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches / September 2008 / Soft Cover / Retail Price $15

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

1       Ten Thousand Hours

2       Learn Lean When Times Are Good

3       Learning to Think

4       Let’s Stop Making the Same Mistake

5       Don’t Aim Low

6       The Eighth Waste

7       The Other Information System

8       One Step Forward, Eleven Back

9       The Ethical Management System

10     Policies for Learning

11     Eleven Questions

12     Emiliani’s Rules

Afterword

About the Author

Index