Lean Six Sigma For Leaders

Preface

We've written this book for you, assuming that you are ‘anyone in a leadership role in any kind of organisation’ and that you are interested or intrigued to learn about the use of Lean Six Sigma. It's based on a heck of a lot of practical experience over many years, meeting and working with leaders in all sorts of positions, in all sorts of organisations, in all sorts of sectors!

Following on from the success of Lean Six Sigma for Dummies we were kindly invited to write this book by Wiley Publishing. I (Martin) must admit that I have often joked in executive workshops that given the title Lean Six Sigma for Dummies that book was written very much with executives in mind and you have taken this in good heart as you often do see yourselves as ‘dummies’ when it comes to this kind of thing. Of course, that isn't at all fair but what I have discovered is that you want to be able to pick up a book, read it through quickly, pick up the key points very much focused on your role as a leader, whilst not getting bogged down in the technical detail of different tools. You want to see how you and your organisation can use this ‘stuff’ – and by the way, you don't even have to call it ‘Lean Six Sigma’. In fact, I was rather hoping the title would be ‘Lean Six Sigma…or whatever you want to call it… for Leaders’. We will explain why, but most importantly we wanted to write a book that you could relate to, with plenty of real life examples, real case studies, from real leaders' perspectives. ...