The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success. It tells you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a lean transformation, this is where you should start and finish...and start again.

New in the third edition:


- Contains new chapter on engaging executives in lean initiatives
- Includes 21 new case studies
- Presents new examples from the healthcare and process industries
- Includes additional gemba worksheets for learning and teaching lean
- Provides expanded coverage of lean applications in complex cross functional value stream process improvement projects

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