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Lean Production Simplified, 3rd Edition
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Lean Production Simplified, 3rd Edition

by Pascal Dennis
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
249 pages
6h 17m
English
Productivity Press
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A3 Thinking
An A3 report is a one-page story on 11" × 17" paper.
20,21
A3s were originally
used at Toyota in the 1960s to summarize kaizen circle activities. They have
perhaps become Toyota’s most effective communication tools. There are
now four kinds of A3s:
grimace and think,“You pretend to give us a reasonable strategy, and
we’ll pretend to do it.”
Why do otherwise capable leaders behave this way?
In part, they’re trying to buffer uncertainty. “We don’t really know
what’s happening, so we’ll keep pressing buttons.Something is bound to
work!” Surely, a better approach is to take the time to grasp ...
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