Book Review

Several years ago, I bought Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide. Since that time, I’ve found myself turning back to the book for help, guidance, and general information as I help individuals and organizations achieve a higher level of performance through the implementation of Lean Thinking. Here’s the product description found on Amazon: Written by [...]

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This book is for relevant for all Lean Manufacturing Consultants interested in 5S, visual management systems, visual workplace, or interested in seeing visual factory examples, then this book is for you. Here are a few reviews from Amazon: Michael Greif has written a book on lean principles long before the MIT study resulted in “The [...]

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With Fall around the corner and the better part of 2010 over, I wanted to see what the Top 30 Most Popular Books on Amazon.com are with the search term “Lean Six Sigma” (also bestselling books on Lean Six Sigma). I was surprised to see some of the books on that list and there were [...]

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Several months ago I finished Dr. Sami Bahri’s book Follow the Learner: The Role of a Leader in Creating a Lean Culture. I’m grateful to the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) for providing me with a free copy (as well as several other books they’ve sent me). This post is my review of the book. Leadership, [...]

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J. Ross Publishing sent me a whole box full of complimentary books to read and review (Thanks!). Of the books in that box, this one was really good. I recommend this book to anybody working in supply chain, fulfillment and distribution, logistics, transportation – AND – is interested in applying Lean Thinking to the Supply [...]

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I finished Shigeo Shingo’s Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking a long time ago. This post is my short review of his book. In general, I thought the book was very good. The lessons contained therein are timeless and, while at the time they were revolutionary, for most lean practitioners today they might seem [...]

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