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Real Lean: Understanding the Lean Management System (Volume One)

Bob Emiliani

In REAL LEAN - Understanding the Lean Management System (Volume One), Bob Emiliani explains the purposes, advantages, myths, and misinformation surrounding Lean management. In a lively and engaging style, he…

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Real Lean: Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two)

Bob Emiliani

In REAL LEAN - Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management (Volume Two), Bob Emiliani helps Lean management practitioners gain a greater awareness of the challenges they face when implementing…

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Real Lean: The Keys to Sustaining Lean Management (Volume Three)

Bob Emiliani

REAL LEAN - The Keys to Sustaining Lean Management (Volume Three), finally answers the question that Lean practitioners have been asking for decades: How do you sustain Lean management? Volume…

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Real Lean: Learning the Craft of Lean Management (Volume Four)

Bob Emiliani

This fourth and final volume of the REAL LEAN series brings Lean full circle. It shows how Lean management is itself a craft that can only be learned as any…

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Real Lean: Strategies for Lean Management Success (Volume 5)

Bob Emiliani

The REAL LEAN series of books explains Lean management in ways that hundreds of other books do not. These original and creative works are written for hands-on Lean practitioners. Each…

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Critique of Lean: Pathway to Improvement

Bob Emiliani

Critique of Lean examines the fundamental nature of Lean management and its association to Toyota’s management system. This rigorous and insightful critique challenges decades-old assertions of philosophical, technical, and evolutionary…

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Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide For Executives

Bob Emiliani

Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide For Executives is the first book to present Lean leadership in ways that are specific and actionable for executives to apply at work…

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Lean Teaching: A Guide to Becoming a Better Teacher

Bob Emiliani

Higher education has undergone major changes inprice and competition, yet the status quo prevailswhen it comes to teaching. Long-used pedagogiesare losing their appeal among students, payers, and employers. They want…

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Lean Is Not Mean: 68 Practical Lessons in Lean Leadership

Bob Emiliani

The long-term viability of Lean as an alternative management system depends on the ability of its practitioners to recognize the differences, both great and small, between it and conventional management…

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The Triumph of Classical Management Over Lean Management: How Tradition Prevails and What to Do About It

Bob Emiliani

Since the inception of modern progressive management in the late 1800s, its creators and devoted practitioners have persistently encountered disinterest among corporate executives despite its wide-ranging benefits. The newest form…

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Real Lean: Unsolved Problems in Lean Management (Volume Six)

Bob Emiliani

The REAL LEAN series of books explains Lean management in ways that hundreds of other books do not. These original and creative works are written for hands-on Lean practitioners. Each…

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Moving Forward Faster: The Mental Evolution from Fake Lean to REAL Lean

Bob Emiliani

At long last, the deep secrets of Lean management are revealed! This provocative and insightful book clearly explains why Lean management, despite its overwhelming advantages over conventional management, has yet…

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Irrational Institutions: Business, Its Leaders, and The Lean Movement

Bob Emiliani

For more than a century people have speculated why business leaders resist or reject new systems of progressive management. The first comprehensive analysis of this problem appeared in the book…

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Management Mysterium: The Quest for Progress

Bob Emiliani

Leaders’ desire to maintain the status quo is the result of calculated efforts as well as unseen sentiments that operate in the background and which reside in the spiritual realm…

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Improvement: A Hundred-Year Plan for Progressive Management

Bob Emiliani

What is improvement? It is accurately described as the process of a thing moving from one state to a state considered to be better, usually through some action intended to…

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A Changed Perspective

Bob Emiliani

Despite a century of effort by untold numbers of people to deconstruct leadership - to understand it and identify better ways to lead and manage people - it has had…

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Conversations with Taiichi Ohno: Management Insights for the Digital Age

Bob Emiliani

Conversations with Taiichi Ohno is a fictional account of probing conversations between the author and Taiichi Ohno. It explores the purpose and meaning of the Toyota Production System and how…

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Lean University: A Guide to Renewal and Prosperity

Bob Emiliani

Higher education has undergone major changes inprice and competition, yet the status quo prevailswhen it comes to management. Long-used practices are losing their appeal among faculty, staff, students, and others…

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The Workmanship of Leaders

Bob Emiliani

Leadership has been extensively studied and written about for 100 years. Yet the results are far more fluff than substance because the fundamental understanding of leaders and their purpose is…

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Speed Leadership: A New Way to Lead for Rapidly Changing Times

Bob Emiliani

Speed Leadership is a breakthrough in understanding leadership and how to improve leadership capabilities and effectiveness. This practical new approach takes a process view of leadership in preference to the…

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Wheel of Fortune: Getting to the Heart of Business Strategy

Massimo Torinesi,Bob Emiliani

Does it still make sense today to talk about strategy? Or does today’s liquid, interconnected, and global world only require the ability to adapt and seize opportunities from wherever they…

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The Aesthetic Compass: Foundation of Leadership Action and Inaction

Bob Emiliani

The Aesthetic Compass interprets classical management through the lens of aesthetic experiences and aesthetic judgments to explain, in simpler terms, why organizations today are led much the same way as…

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A Few More Thoughts

Bob Emiliani

A Few More Thoughts completes three decades of dedicated practice, research, and analysis of progressive management and classical management, and their associated leadership thinking and action. Readers will enjoy this…

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Better Thinking, Better Results

Bob, Emiliani

BETTER THINKING, BETTER RESULTS answers the question: How do you conduct a Lean transformation? It is a detailed case study and analysis of The Wiremold Company’s enterprise-wide Lean transformation from…

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Eliminating Waste In Teaching: Timeless Lessons for Improving Teaching and Training

Bob Emiliani,Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) was a principal leader of the early 20th century Scientific Management movement. Recognized internationally for her work in industrial psychology and industrial engineering, her work…

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Principles of Mass and Flow Production

Frank G Woollard

Principles of Mass and Flow Production is a 55th Anniversary Special Reprint Edition of Frank G. Woollard’s long-forgotten book published in 1954, and includes Woollard’s amazing 1925 paper Some Notes…

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Kaizen Forever: Teachings of Chihiro Nakao

Katsusaburo Yoshino,Rudy Go,Bob Emiliani

Kaizen Forever introduces you to the teachings of Chihiro Nakao. Mr. Nakao co-founded the Shingijutsu Company in 1987 at the behest of Taiichi Ohno to teach the principles and practices…

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Shingijutsu-Kaizen: The Art of Discovery and Learning

Michael Herscher,Bob Emiliani,Ralph Wood

For more than 28 years, Kaizen consultants from Shingijutsu USA Corporation have been helping manufacturing and service organizations improve processes by teaching people the methods and tools of flow production.This…

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Why Lean Transformation Fails: Common challenges to adopting new leadership and management systems

Steven Leuschel

Failure is merely a temporary weakening of momentum on the way to sustained success. Learning from past Lean transformation failures will help any organization mitigate against the many challenges of…

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