Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
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Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
The resulting process is called “lean” and is summed up in the following: “It transfers the maximum number of tasks and responsibilities to those workers actually adding value to the car on the line, and it has in place a system for discovering defects that quickly traces every problem, once discovered, to its ultimate cause.”15 Paying attention to
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