Excerpt from The Pocket Guide to Making Stuff Better When an organization gets large, it often, by necessity, becomes bogged down by the requirements to keep itself moving. Too much red tape, too many people to talk to, or too…
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Taiichi Ohno’s Ten Precepts, Broken Down
Once you start something, persevere with it. Do not give up until you finish it.
How to Ensure Changes Last
The whole point of undergoing process improvement projects is to make lasting changes, which means lasting behavior changes in many cases.
High Leverage Focal Points
Before trying to boil the ocean, the top areas of improvement should be selected and narrowed down.
Toyota’s 4P Model
Process improvement framework for managers to adopt and implement
A Graphical Linear Programming Example
Math for managers.
Why Mental Models Are Important
Managers need frameworks and mental models for determining how to think about and around particular topics.
Art and Science
Management has an art and science to it. Breaking down the two and how to distinguish between them is a huge accomplishment.
Systems Need Rule Breakers
to manage well requires being able to both set the rules, and figure out when to break them.
Six Thinking Hats
As a manager, you'll need to be able to constantly switch roles to be the right resource.
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