Book description
The Barn Door Is Open: Frameworks and Tools for Success and Fulfillment in the Workplace is a business book, a playful and humorous read, an intelligent metaphorical and philosophical tale anchored in the tools and techniques of innovative and proven management frameworks.Readers will not only find its teachings entertaining and inspirational, but will benefit from its lessons and tools by applying them to their personal lives.
This book integrates the subjects and tools of Lean and Lean Transformation, mindfulness, conflict resolution, Theory of Constraints, project management, Agile, Six Sigma, change management, and corporate culture transformation into one easily digestible reference.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Review
- Abstract
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
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Part 1 The Barn Door Is Open
- Chapter 1 Building the Farm
- Chapter 2 POUT
- Chapter 3 Mindfulness
- Chapter 4 Waste
- Chapter 5 Quality
- Chapter 6 Visual Workplace and Daily Management Systems
- Chapter 7 Problem-Solving and True Deep Root Causes (TDRCs)
- Chapter 8 Countermeasures
- Chapter 9 Theory of Constraints (TOC)
- Chapter 10 Flow
- Chapter 11 Pull versus Push
- Chapter 12 Change
- Chapter 13 Journey
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Part 2 The Toolshed by the Barn
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Whole Milk Category
- Tool/Framework 1 - POUT
- Tool/Framework 2 - Five Whys
- Tool/Framework 3 - Interrelationship Diagram or Digraph
- Tool/Framework 4 - Affinity Diagram
- Tool/Framework 5 - Control Charts
- Tool/Framework 6 - Kanban Boards
- Tool/Framework 7 - Solution Prioritization Matrix
- Tool/Framework 8 - Daily Kaizen
- Tool/Framework 9 - Descriptive Statistics
- Tool/Framework 10 - Data Cubes: Facts and Dimensions
- Tool/Framework 11 - The 80/20 Pareto Rule
- Tool/Framework 12 - Basic Flowcharting
- Skim Milk Category
- Milkshake Category
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Whole Milk Category
- Appendix, Six Sigma Tools Matrix
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
- Back Cover
Product information
- Title: The Barn Door is Open
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2020
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781952538414
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