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Lean Leadership

If you are seeking to develop lean leaders within your company, the following books can help you understand the essentials of lean leadership and learn some effective approaches to training leaders.

 
 
Toyota Production System (Ohno)
With Productivity Press' classic books, you learn from the masters. Taiichi Ohno is considered the inventor of the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing. And in his book Toyota Production System, the creator of just-in-time production reveals the origins, daring innovations and ceaseless evolution of the Toyota Production System.
$45.00
Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing
Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing will give you step-by-step directions to making rapid, lasting changes. John Davis has created 4 new drivers of waste-free manufacturing (WFM), linking them in order, so you know the sequence and when it is time to move to the next driver. He covers nearly every aspect of the lean revolution and provides essential tools and techniques you will need to implement WFM.
$45.00
 
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Leading the Lean Initiative
This "how-to" manual tackles the "soft" side of implementing lean. Learn how to lead a lean effort and effectively manage change.
$45.00
Kaizen for the Shopfloor
Prepare your entire workforce to truly benefit from your next kaizen event! Now you can give your frontline employees the information they need to understand, plan, and implement kaizen. Other Shopfloor Series books can also be used as training materials.
$25.00
 
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Lean Culture

Creating and sustaining a lean culture is critical to the long-term success of a lean strategy. These books can help you achieve that goal.

 
Training Within Industry
Training Within Industry, by Donald Dinero, explores a crucial piece of a Lean initiative that has been overlooked throughout U.S. industry. The Training Within Industry (TWI) program - developed by the United States during World War II - has been used by Toyota for decades! This powerful program standardizes training processes and assists front-line supervisors in teaching new operations to workers quickly and effectively.
$40.00
Inside the Mind of Toyota
This book clarifies the principles through which any enterprise or organization can learn to attain its own sustained growth. The ultimate goal is not to simply mimic Toyota's formula, but to learn from it and, in doing so, surpass it.
$50.00
 
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Creating a Lean Culture
Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical guide to implementing the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation. David Mann provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements of a lean management system, including: leader standard work, visual controls, daily accountability processes, maintaining a process focus, managing key HR issues, and much more.
$35.00
Lean Culture (Insights on Implementation)
Provides a variety of case studies, all focus on cultural issues, ranging from the role of top management, to training and development of workers and managers, to building buy-in and to sustaining the culture.
$15.00
 
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Lean Strategy

Aligning all activities within your business in a coordinated lean strategy is challenging. These books can help you understand how to make that happen.

 
Transforming Strategy into Success
Transforming Strategy into Success introduces lean principles to the realm of corporate leadership and management. Selected as one of the best books for 2004 by Industrial Engineer Magazine, December 2004.
$35.00
Implementing a Lean Management System
Consolidate all your improvement systems into a single coherent process that reaches beyond zero waste. Deploy your vision, long-term development planning, and policy targets to all levels of daily activity in your company.
$75.00
 
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Manufacturing Strategy, 2nd edition
Incorporating comments and suggestions from managers who used the first edition of Manufacturing Strategy, John Miltenburg expands and improves on his focus in the areas of International Manufacturing, Competitive Strategy , and Manufacturing Programs.
$58.00
Creating Lean Corporations
This book is for business process managers (especially lean leaders) who seek to reengineer their business processes using lean principles.
$35.00
 
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Using Lean for Faster Six Sigma Results
If you are struggling with the dilemma of how to integrate Lean and Six Sigma, or deciding which approach to use, read this practical, down-to-earth book to inspire and guide your strategy.
$40.00
Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit
This workbook will show you the mechanics of implementing hoshin kanri, so that you can systematically improve your brand equity, implement Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, and integrate your suppliers into a Lean and Six Sigma organization.
$50.00
 
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