Real Lean: Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two) - Softcover

Emiliani, Bob

 
9780972259149: Real Lean: Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two)

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What if today's Lean management problems aren't new and have been around for ages?

REAL LEAN Volume Two draws on the long-forgotten writings of Scientific Management pioneers from the early 1900s to diagnose exactly why modern Lean efforts stall, backslide, and collapse. The parallels are uncanny, and the lessons are urgent.

Across 13 chapters, the authori tackles the issues other Lean books avoid: why Lean keeps getting reduced to a toolkit, the "we're beyond that" delusion, why finance executives quietly sabotage Lean, and how zero-sum thinking poisons every transformation it touches. The final chapter introduces Lean Enterprise Estate Planning — a new framework for sustaining Lean across decades, mergers, and leadership successions.

Practical, blunt, and grounded in primary-source history no other Lean author has mined. Written for practitioners, managers, and finance executives committed to Lean as a complete management system.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Bob Emiliani has been a progressive management practitioner and researcher for over 30 years. He worked in industry for 15 years and had management responsibility in engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management at Pratt & Whitney. Bob was part of a team responsible for implementing TPS principles and practices in both manufacturing and supply chains at Pratt & Whitney. Subsequently, he was full-time professor for 23 years. He now holds the honorary title of Professor Emeritus. Bob was the first academic to establish a research agenda focused on Lean leadership, resulting in numerous publications and varied leadership development workshops. Bob is a prolific, versatile, and award-winning writer whose publications span engineering, business, social sciences, and humanities. He has authored or co-authored 28 books and 45 peer-reviewed papers across six different disciplines (leadership, management, management history, supply chain management, higher education, and materials engineering). His work is widely recognized and he is praised for being a unique voice and a creative thinker.

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