Read by Douglas James

The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success. It tells you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a lean transformation, this is where you should start and finish...and start again. New in the third edition: - Contains new chapter on engaging executives in lean initiatives - Includes 21 new case studies - Presents new examples from the healthcare and process industries - Includes additional gemba worksheets for learning and teaching lean - Provides expanded coverage of lean applications in complex cross functional value stream process improvement projects Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC (P)

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