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Since the inception of modern progressive management in the late 1800s, its creators and devoted practitioners have persistently encountered disinterest among corporate executives despite its wide-ranging benefits. The newest form of progressive management, Lean management, also suffers from executive disinterest. Why? Decades of effort to understand executive disinterest yielded no new insights - until now. Triumph of Classical Management solves a major business problem that has endured for more than 100 years. It provides a comprehensive explanation for why executives reject Lean management. It also provides practical solutions for how to gain acceptance for Lean management and an alternative. The findings can also be applied to other types corporate transformation efforts.

Higher education has undergone major changes inprice and competition, yet the status quo prevailswhen it comes to teaching. Long-used pedagogiesare losing their appeal among students, payers, and employers. They want and deserve better.Lean Teaching is a practical guide for college anduniversity professors who are interested in becoming better teachers. It shows how to apply Lean principles and practices through the use of detailed examples. Readers will also learn the results of applying the Lean teaching pedagogy for more than 15 years, and how they too can achieve similar results.Whether you are new to teaching or a 30 year veteran, you will find in Lean Teaching manynew things to learn and put into practice.

Critique of Lean examines the fundamental nature of Lean management and its association to Toyota's management system. This rigorous and insightful critique challenges decades-old assertions of philosophical, technical, and evolutionary sameness. The result is a clear differentiation between Lean and Toyota's management system. Professor Emiliani reveals the truth about Lean. In doing so, he provides valuable guidance to both the originators of Lean and the users of Lean for improving the product, Lean, with the intention to achieve better outcomes for all stakeholders. Critique of Lean will change how you think about Lean.

The long-term viability of Lean as an alternative management system depends on the ability of its practitioners to recognize the differences, both great and small, between it and conventional management practice.Foremost among the differences is the way in which Lean management must be led. For some three decades, the great majority of leaders have led Lean in ways that resulted in good outcomes for the company and its shareholders, but bad outcomes for employees, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.If it's mean, it's not Lean.The intent of Lean management is to instead create outcomes that are good for everyone: employees, suppliers, customers, investors, and communities.This book will help leaders close the gap between actual outcomes and required outcomes. It presents 68 practical lessons to improve their understanding and practice of Lean management and achieve outcomes that benefit all stakeholders.

Speed Leadership is a breakthrough in understanding leadership and how to improve leadership capabilities and effectiveness. This practical new approach takes a process view of leadership in preference to the traditional view of leadership based on personality, behaviors, or authenticity. Understanding leadership as processes is a powerful new perspective on what constitutes effective leadership and offers new pathways for meaningful improvement.Leaders with an open mind, a willing heart, and genuine concern for the long-term success of an organization and its stakeholders, will find this book extremely helpful if not life-changing.

Conversations with Taiichi Ohno is a fictional account of probing conversations between the author and Taiichi Ohno. It explores the purpose and meaning of the Toyota Production System and how it anticipated today's digital age. Ohno's remarkable work and his unique way of thinking created a new management system that will energize and strengthen corporate digital transformation. Learn why the Toyota Production System is more relevant in the 21st century than it was in the 20th century and how it will help your company survive and prosper in the digital age.In danger of being forgotten as the years go by, critical elements of Ohno's work remain unknown, poorly known, or misunderstood. Ohno reminds us that good thinking, steady work habits, daily improvement, and long-term commitment to a purpose remain necessary now and into the future. Conversations with Taiichi Ohno is an exposition of the management thinking, practice, and decision-making that enables TPS to be established and evolve in your company to achieve success in the digital age.