Creating a Lean Culture, 3rd Edition

56 ◾ Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions

Leader Standard Work as Interlocking Layers

Leader standard work is layered with a degree of redundancy built in,

linking the layers. Think of a job responsibility for team leaders, such

as filling out the production tracking chart every 20 minutes and noting

its Leanimplementation. It seems to me that Lean production

implementations generally should come before implementing Lean

management. In part, that’s because Lean management should repre-

sent a value proposition for leaders. The value proposition goes like

this: Lean production tools improve the process; Lean management ...