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Recommended Reading

• Management Improvement Carnival #91
  Published: March 11, 2010
  Source: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog
  The Curious Cat Management Blog Carnival provides links to recent articles to help managers improve the performance of their organization. A Mindless Worker is a Happy Worker “when people are given a chance...
• Jeff Liker: Managers Should Be Teachers, Not Simply Controllers
  Published: March 12, 2010
  Source: The Lean Edge
  1.  Clearly define the work as much as possible In the Toyota Way I discuss the concept of standardization to enhance innovation.  A core idea in kaizen is that you cannot improve a process that is not stable...
• The Mighty WOMBAT: A Simple Approach to Finding Muda
  Published: March 12, 2010
  Source: Six Sigma - Lean Six Sigma and Quality Resources | Six Sigma IQ - IQPC
  The wombat is a muscular Australian marsupial that burrows and eats plants. Its
• How to Add Value
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: shmula
  In Lean Thinking, we use the phrase “value-add” and then qualify that term as taken from the “customer’s perspective.” While that might be true, it’s not concrete enough and is actually difficult to...
• What does it take to be a Lean Manager?
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: A Lean Journey
  During a recent plant visit I questioned the management style of the operations team.  You could say it was a traditional style of management of sort.  Unfortunately, they thought they could manage from the o...
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