The Pocket Sensei - Volume I - Standard Edition: Mastering Lean Leadership - Softcover

Macomber, Hal; Davey, Calayde

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975601300 ISBN 13: 9781975601300

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

While Lean is all the buzz these days, Lean leadership is wanting. The pervasive focus on Lean tools distracts from the important work of developing Lean leaders at all levels of organizations. Success with Lean requires change. All organizational change requires leadership. Growing leaders of all types can be a long process. Growing Lean leaders takes a bit more work. While it s easy to declare that an organization is adopting Lean as their operating strategy, in practice, Lean challenges so much about we hold to be true and we credit to our success. Lean leaders must replace their current automatic ways of engaging with people and work while helping others to do the same.

About this title

About the Author

Hal did his first production system project in the summer of 1974 in the butcher department of a supermarket. He followed that with a two-year stint in the operations research department of the Bank of Boston in 1976 - 1978. Hal was selected to study quality and Just-In-Time production in Japan in the mid 1980's. That began the formal introduction to Lean which spanned numerous industries and professions. Along the way, Hal was introduced to the work of Fernando Flores -- first the study of the language-action perspective, then ontological redesign. Those bodies of knowledge coupled to Lean allowed him and his collaborators to make very large scale organizational interventions. Hal and his wife Rita live in the White Mountains of New Hampshire among many good friends. Calayde studied her masters in architecture in South Africa, and with the help of a Fulbright Scholarship, obtained a PhD in Environmental Planning, Economics and Urban Development at Kansas State University. In her last few years in the U.S. she worked on a Lean Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) project in the roles of Lean production engineering and building information modeling. Calayde has a life-long love of performing chamber and orchestral music with her friends, and a recent affair with rock climbing. And as you can see from her illustractions, she also has a life-long dedication to curiosity, which is inspired by the shared trials and tribulations of a wonderful community of colleagues, friends, and family. Calayde has returned to her home country of South Africa for the time being.

Review

Lean leadership is the biggest need and challenge for any enterprise or individual wanting to provide real value. I love The Pocket Sensei because teaching through practice - or kata - is the real path to mastery. The drawings are a delight, and make this book fun and easy to read. I felt as if I were walking in the shoes of the great Lean masters. The Pocket Sensei is truly a gift to the world. --Dean Reed, Advocate, organizer, and educator for Lean and Integrated Project Delivery DPR Construction

Hal Macomber & Calayde Davey open a new path. They take a different route establishing a step-by-step steady principle-based practice. You will change what and how you remember things as you apply more carefully those acts of memory, mastery, and efforts of imagination. --Gregory A. Howell, P.E. Cofounder and past President of the Lean Construction Institute

This book is a strong addition to the Lean literature, describing lessons from decades of consulting experience and effective implementation. Of real importance, the authors teach us to pay attention to our mood, the tenor of one's feelings - an esessential component in any change environment, yet seldom discussed. --Joe Ely. Vice President-Operations. Cook Biotech Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1975601300
• ISBN 13: 9781975601300
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Davey Calayde
• Illustrator: Davey Calayde