The Controller as Lean Leader

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Steering Team Offsite Meeting

Ultimately we want to change the culture so that we place more emphasis on long-term accomplishments and focus less on short-term results. Thus, our strategy should not be about “making-the-month,” as Jack Welch referred to it, but rather about improving the business over the long run. We will pull people together and lead them, not just manage them, by creating a vision of what we believe in through visuals, emotions, and—most important of all—core values. Creating value is the first principle of Lean, and one ...