Leading Lean by Living Lean

In this book, Philip Holt details and explains what is probably the most important part of becoming a Lean leader – living and practicing what you preach. To do this you must believe in what you’re doing, understand what it means and what you need to do, and do it every day. The author, through his engineering background, has fully embraced the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) model of Deming / Shewhart but has adapted David Bovis’ Believe, Think, Feel, Act (BTFA) model to understand why logic and facts are very often not the principal players in the game of change. In Leading Lean by Living Lean, the author describes how you can take both the PDCA and BTFA models into account and has sectioned the book into three prime ...