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

Emiliani, Bob

ISBN 10: 0972259147 / ISBN 13: 9780972259149

Published by Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Real Lean: Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two)
• Publisher: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC, The
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972259147
• ISBN 13: 9780972259149
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 8 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

M.L. "Bob" Emiliani is a professor at Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn., where he teaches various courses on Lean management. Prior to that Bob worked in the consumer products and aerospace industries for nearly two decades. He held management positions in engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management, and had responsibility for implementing Lean in manufacturing operations and supply chains.

He has authored or co-authored a dozen papers related to Lean leadership including: "Lean Behaviors" (1998), "Linking Leaders' Beliefs to their Behaviors and Competencies" (2003), "Using Value Stream Maps to Improve Leadership" (2004), "Origins of Lean Management in America: The Role of Connecticut Businesses" (2006), and "Standardized Work for Executive Leadership" (2008). Five of his papers have won awards for excellence.

Bob is also the author of Better Thinking, Better Results: Case Study and Analysis of an Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation published in 2007; REAL LEAN: Understanding the Lean Management System (Volume One) published in 2007; Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide for Executives published in 2008; and REAL LEAN: The Keys to Sustaining Lean Management (Volume Three) published in 2008.

Bob earned engineering degrees from the University of Miami, University of Rhode Island, and Brown University.