Showing posts with label Lean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lean. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Gung Ho! Book and Movie Review


BooK : Gung Ho! Turn On the people in Any Organization
Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, co-authors of the New York Times business bestseller Raving Fans, are back with Gung Ho! Here is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace. It is a must-read for everyone who wants to stay on top in today's ultra-competitive business world. The authors describe three distinctive phase of transforming a traditional organization to an organization based on high performance work team.

Movie: Gung Ho (1986) (112 minutes)
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor. This is the trailer on Youtube.

Monday, March 28, 2016

Why Lean Starts in the Bathroom

In this video, you'll learn why the President of a Lean Thinking company believes the secret to their success can be found in their bathrooms. He said that it's the clearest path in the world. It's cleaner better than the ritz carlton. He mentioned that it's sparkling clean.
Here is another video about lean bathroom.

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Lean is Simple| Paul Akers

Lean is simplified by Paul Akers. He names himself as the American Innovator. He is an entrepreneur, business owner, author, and speaker and lean maniac. He has traveled around the world with thousand of ideas in lean to make thousand of improvements. In this video, he shared the presentation of Lean Journey with Lean Construction Institute. He gave many examples in real world. The awesome example is Lean Trucking.