Chapter 7

Lean Leadership and the Lean Management System

Steve Bell

Leaders don’t create followers; they create more leaders.

Tom Peters

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

▪  How Lean leaders guide the enterprise utilizing a Lean management system

▪  How a Lean management system utilizes an iterative, cascading, visual communication framework to do the following:

–  Provide teams with a clear vision of true north

–  Connect enterprise strategy with daily operations, projects, and improvement efforts

–  Equip everyone with near real-time information and communications, enabling rapid, adaptive, and informed decision making close to where the work is done

–  Foster teamwork, idea exchange, collaborative learning, and innovation

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