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Jim Womack
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Jim Womack
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In 12 new essays ranging from the provocative to the practical, and written specially for the second edition of Gemba Walks, author and management expert Jim Womack reflects on the past 30 years of lean and assesses the current state of lean today.
He also shares thoughts on how lean thinking and practice can continue to make the world a better place by gaining traction in areas such as government and health care, provides practical guidance for how leaders everywhere can realize the full benefits of a lean management system, and shares hope for continued improvement on the path to better work and more value.
Over the past 30 years, Womack has developed a method of going to visit the gemba at countless companies and keenly observing how people work together to create value. He has shared his thoughts and discoveries from these visits with the lean community through a monthly letter. With Gemba Walks, Expanded 2nd Edition, Womack has selected and reorganized his key letters and written 12 new essays.
Gemba Walks shares his insights on topics ranging from the application of specific tools to the role of management in sustaining lean as well as the long-term prospects for this fundamental new way of creating value. Hearing this book will reveal to listeners a range of lean principles as well as the basis for the critical lean practice of go see, ask why, and show respect.
©2013 Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc. (P)2014 Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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The Supply Chain Revolution
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When CEOs think about the supply chain, it's usually to cut costs. But the smartest leaders see supply chain and sourcing for what they can be: hidden tools for outperforming the competition. Steve Jobs, upon returning to Apple in 1997, focused on transforming the supply chain. He hired Tim Cook - and the company sped up the development of new products, getting them into consumers' hands faster. The rest is history.
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informative but dry
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By: Suman Sarkar
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Journey to the Emerald City
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Building on the success of their previous title, The Oz Principle, Connors and Smith explore the direct link between a company's culture and the results it produces. Journey to the Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the move to a culture of accountability in which people focus on achieving the results critical to a company's future.
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Every creative leaders go to book
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The Strategist
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Based on an acclaimed professor's legendary strategy course at Harvard Business School, The Strategist offers a radically new perspective on a leader's most vital role. "Are you a strategist?" That's the first question Cynthia Montgomery asks the business owners and senior executives from all over the world who participate in her highly regarded executive education course. It's not a question they anticipate, but by the time the program ends, they cannot imagine leading their companies to success without being - and living the role of - a strategist.
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Slow going with an odd narrative tone
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Designing for Growth
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Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate listeners on one of the hottest trends in business development: "design thinking", or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Jeanne Liedtka's recent book, The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth, was named a Top Innovation and Design Thinking Book by Business Week. Tim Ogilvie has been hailed as a visionary for his pioneering contributions to service innovation, business model innovation, and customer experience design.
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Audiobook requires regular book
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The High-Potential Leader
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Companies need high potential leaders (Hi-Pos) more than ever before to help them adapt to today's tumultuous, digitally-driven business environment. If you meet the Hi-Po criteria, you're in high demand - and this book explains how to fast-track yourself.
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Good book for people wanting to climb the corporate ladder and for executives to accelerate high - potential leaders
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
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In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction, victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.
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Moderate Start, Picks up FAST!
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How Did That Happen?
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Drawing on case studies, many from client companies, the authors show how to establish clear expectations and manage the unmet expectations that inevitably occur. And they offer a positive, principled way that engages hearts and minds. This book can help people at every level---from senior executives to front-line workers---enjoy greater productivity, profitability, and job satisfaction.
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HELP - How Can I Get The Lost Hours Back ?
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Process!
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It's when you're stuck in the day-to-day, putting out fires and cleaning up messes, that passion turns to frustration. Freedom seems somewhere between elusive and impossible. The secret to getting unstuck is process. This inspiring, informative field guide will prove it's possible to establish rigor and discipline for process while also increasing creativity, flexibility, and innovation. Process! will help you identify a handful of core processes that make your business uniquely valuable.
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Missing Chapter Five
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The Amazon Way: Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles
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The 3rd edition of The Amazon Way is one of the rare business leadership books giving actionable insights for innovation and business growth to be the basis for your digital transformation gameplan. The Amazon Way translates Amazon's unique culture and management practices into insights and opportunities, as only an Amazon executive and expert advisor could do for the Amazon Leadership Principles giving listeners one of the essential business leadership books for the digital era.
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Good overview about Amazon
- By MrsSnuggs0512 on 06-05-24
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- EnriqueVargas
- 05-13-16
A milestone
I have read many books on the subject and this one is full of wizdom and knowledge. It serves as a good check list of key requirements on how to do Lean.
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- Luis Hernandez
- 03-10-17
Great essays!
first book I have read about this subject, there to many new terms to get used to, but great work on the essays that tell a very compelling story of the need to think about providing value for the customer, highly recommended.
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- Joseph
- 11-09-16
Necessary Book for Business
All the chapters / essays were good, but I especially liked the updates to the second edition.
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- Stoyan
- 02-27-17
A truly wonderful journey through the world..
...and work of Womack and the efforts to build a better world to work and live in!
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- Businessmap LTD.
- 08-03-18
One of the best books on lean
As much as I thought I know about lean, this book was a true eye-opener on many topics. The format of short essays is super for the busy professional. I wish I'd read this book long ago...
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- Kitty
- 11-11-18
Great insight!
As a Lean Practitioner, the insights from the book help bring Jim's extensive experience to the less practiced. Key points I haven't yet had to consider bring up real world challenges; like getting a bank loan with a company that is so lean, it doesn't have a whole lot of physical assets! Though it's a collection of essays and thus, a little scattered, it's a must read for anyone serious about lean.
#Lean #SelfDevelopment #Excellence #tagsgiving #sweepstakes
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- Kevin Eggart
- 01-04-19
so much to learn
This book was a pleasure to listen to on audible. The organization of this book was excellent and the length of the chapters made it very enjoyable. There is so much knowledge about lean theory and practicality in this book. I highly recommend it.
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- Mark Obenauer
- 04-02-17
A great book on history of Lean movement.
Both a selling and a history of Lean movement. I was looking for more of a how to, but I ended up more sold on this management method.
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- KFV
- 07-28-16
A great story, a great teacher, a great human been
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Dr.Woomak is not only a grean lean thinker but a great human been. his method to teach is simple and direct' love this man!
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When he explains his mistakes in the bike shop.
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made me a better person and a better professional
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- Christian
- 03-15-19
Really valuable experience sharing...
by one of the greatest contributers and advocates of Lean/TPS development throughout the world. Very inspiring!
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