158 • Relentless Improvement: True Stories of Lean Transformation
all the furniture. I put up dry-erase boards, corkboards, and motivational
stu. It was a place to get things done. I even went outside and washed the
windows. I cannot stand a messy oce.
e next week we hired a man by the name of Bill Carreira as vice presi-
dent of manufacturing. He had written a book titled Lean Manufacturing
at Works. To this day, I consider it the best Lean book I have read, and
I have read a lot of them. In hiring Bill, the company hired someone who
turned out to be a personal Sensei and mentor to this day. Bill immediately
taught me something and saved me from making a mistake. I invited him
into my oce. He said, “Come on, I want you to come out i