management

Freeing Up Leadership Capacity to Lead Lean | Episode 4

Don’t do what many companies do and underestimate the time required for leaders—at all levels—to lead lean. If you try to lead others in continuous improvement before first budgeting and protecting leaders’ time to support the effort, you are destined to fail. Management attention must be focused and effective. So if something is killing your …

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Executive Failure

Business Executives: 5 Reasons Why Lean Efforts Fail

Whether it’s in manufacturing literature or in conversations with others, “executive buy-in” is frequently named the most important requirement for success with lean. If you’re an executive and reading this article, you’re probably not surprised to hear that. You’ve probably heard it before, too, if you’ve spent any time around lean thinking and strategies for …

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