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“Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership.”
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Case Study for Steps 2 through 7
Gerald Kendall • Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability
In addition to structures and culture, an organization’s problem-solving defaults can provide insights into the way your organization operates as a system—and its adaptability. Defaults are the ways of looking at situations that lead people to behave in ways that are comfortable and that have generated desirable results in the past.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
The Kanban Method follows four principles of continuous improvement designed to minimize resistance to change: Start with what you do now Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change Initially, respect current roles, responsibilities, and job titles Encourage acts of leadership at all levels
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
“Don’t accept defects, don’t make defects, and don’t pass on defects.”
Masaaki Imai • Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition
Human Centered Design
dane cads and • 14 cards
Team Development
Andrew McCluskey • 1 card
Innovator's Dilemma
sari • 5 cards
Like Steven Spear describing the Toyota environment as a community of scientists in The High-Velocity Edge, an organization that only Plans and Does can never really improve.