Beyond Lean A Revised Framework of Leadership and Continuous Improve
This book by Peter Béndek presents a strong case against the current practice of business operations improvement, based on numerous studies from the business world as well as insights from the most prestigious authors of the last fifty year
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Beyond Lean
A Revised Framework of Leadership and Continuous Improvement
Beyond Lean
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Peter Be´ndek
Beyond Lean A Revised Framework of Leadership and Continuous Improvement
Peter Be´ndek MANTEC International Gothenburg, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-319-27743-1 ISBN 978-3-319-27745-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27745-5
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Preface
I wanted to write an exciting book and having read it back on completion I believe I managed to achieve this objective at least. I can only hope my reader will have the same feeling once reaching the end. I have stuffed into it a critical investigation into our current theories and into the management practice of some of the world’s most important businesses, so in this sense the reader holds, for better or worse, a management thriller in their hands. It has a vein, too, in the still little developed discipline of the philosophy of management, centring around the most salient management philosophy of our time, the Toyota Way. And of course, the book is also an introduction to a leadership practice of continuous improvement and cultural transformation aspiring to point beyond Lean and help a few businesses redesign their CI practice for the better. I did not want this to be a lengthy book either but rather a representation of a way of thinking which might give food for further thought while also conclusive and helpful in key points. I fleshed the new framework out with just enough details to be comprehensible and inspiring at the same time. Again, I can only hope I did well. I wish my reader for an enjoyable time with this book. Technically speaking, this book was designed to be usable by the ac
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