Lean Culture - The Leader's Guide

Lean Culture - The Leader's Guide provides a road-map to implementing lean culture within your organization. This guide represents the knowledge gained through thirty-five years of field experience implementing large scale change in the culture of organizations. This guide presents the principles and process of changing organization culture to capitalize on the competitive advantages of lean. Lean culture is a lot more than the tools and techniques of lean. It is the framework of values, daily habits and relationships within which those techniques can succeed and be sustained. Without the support of the culture, the techniques often fail. The sustainable value is in the culture and management process in which continuous improvement becomes a daily habit at every level. The purpose of this book is to help you build this culture. The Leader's Guide will show you how to... ... Instill the habits, values and management process of daily life in a lean organization. ...Engage all members of the organization, from top-to-bottom, in a consistent and organized process of improvement. ...Be the change! Model the behavior you expect from others. ...Align systems, structure, skills, style and symbols to the new culture.