Bøker av Bob Emiliani

"Leaders' desire to maintain the status quo is the result of calculated efforts as well as unseen sentiments that operate in the background and which reside in the spiritual realm. Management Mysterium explores the contribution of the spiritual realm to prevent needed progress from being made in business organizations and society"--

Since the inception of modern progressive management in the late 1800s, its creators and devoted practitioners have persistently encountered disinterest among corporate executives despite its wide-ranging benefits. The newest form of progressive management, Lean management, also suffers from executive disinterest. Why? Decades of effort to understand executive disinterest yielded no new insights - until now. Triumph of Classical Management solves a major business problem that has endured for more than 100 years. It provides a comprehensive explanation for why executives reject Lean management. It also provides practical solutions for how to gain acceptance for Lean management and an alternative. The findings can also be applied to other types corporate transformation efforts.

A Few More Thoughts completes three decades of dedicated practice, research, and analysis of progressive management and classical management, and their associated leadership thinking and action. Readers will enjoy this interesting, insightful, and useful final contribution to the body of management and leadership knowledge that will be relevant for many years to come. A Few More Thoughts consists of critical five essays, a polemic, and a research paper. Each chapter delivers fresh thinking and breaks new ground. - What Deming Did Not Understand- Jumping to Solutions- Being a Lean Professional- Improving the Kaizen Process- Lean and Labor Unions- Lean Management Manifesto>Together, they finalize Emiliani's thoughts on various aspects of progressive management and leadership. "Bob Emiliani's voice should be heard by every CEO on the planet." - Laura Gerrits Gedvile

Higher education has undergone major changes inprice and competition, yet the status quo prevailswhen it comes to teaching. Long-used pedagogiesare losing their appeal among students, payers, and employers. They want and deserve better.Lean Teaching is a practical guide for college anduniversity professors who are interested in becoming better teachers. It shows how to apply Lean principles and practices through the use of detailed examples. Readers will also learn the results of applying the Lean teaching pedagogy for more than 15 years, and how they too can achieve similar results.Whether you are new to teaching or a 30 year veteran, you will find in Lean Teaching manynew things to learn and put into practice.

Leadership has been extensively studied and written about for 100 years. Yet the results are far more fluff than substance because the fundamental understanding of leaders and their purpose is incomplete or incorrect. The positioning of leadership as a profession means that we do not normally think of leaders' work in terms of workmanship. But what happens if we do? Because leader's work is not typically associated with the word "workmanship," it is important to explore what leadership would be like if it were thought of as workmanship and if leaders were workmanlike in carrying out their duties. Would it be any different than how leaders lead today or as they have led in the past? Could leadership be different in the future? The Workmanship of Leaders is an engaging technical analysis of the meaning of workmanship and workmanlike diligence in the context of systems, frameworks, and information processing. It shines new lights on how leaders think, how they behave, and why they do what they do. In doing so, it explains why the aims and actions of leaders have been remarkably constant for centuries. It also shows the futility of traditional leadership training programs and points to essential new directions for leadership development. Leaders at any level and in any line of work will find this book captivating and eye-opening.

Critique of Lean examines the fundamental nature of Lean management and its association to Toyota's management system. This rigorous and insightful critique challenges decades-old assertions of philosophical, technical, and evolutionary sameness. The result is a clear differentiation between Lean and Toyota's management system. Professor Emiliani reveals the truth about Lean. In doing so, he provides valuable guidance to both the originators of Lean and the users of Lean for improving the product, Lean, with the intention to achieve better outcomes for all stakeholders. Critique of Lean will change how you think about Lean.

The long-term viability of Lean as an alternative management system depends on the ability of its practitioners to recognize the differences, both great and small, between it and conventional management practice.Foremost among the differences is the way in which Lean management must be led. For some three decades, the great majority of leaders have led Lean in ways that resulted in good outcomes for the company and its shareholders, but bad outcomes for employees, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.If it's mean, it's not Lean.The intent of Lean management is to instead create outcomes that are good for everyone: employees, suppliers, customers, investors, and communities.This book will help leaders close the gap between actual outcomes and required outcomes. It presents 68 practical lessons to improve their understanding and practice of Lean management and achieve outcomes that benefit all stakeholders.

Speed Leadership is a breakthrough in understanding leadership and how to improve leadership capabilities and effectiveness. This practical new approach takes a process view of leadership in preference to the traditional view of leadership based on personality, behaviors, or authenticity. Understanding leadership as processes is a powerful new perspective on what constitutes effective leadership and offers new pathways for meaningful improvement.Leaders with an open mind, a willing heart, and genuine concern for the long-term success of an organization and its stakeholders, will find this book extremely helpful if not life-changing.

Conversations with Taiichi Ohno is a fictional account of probing conversations between the author and Taiichi Ohno. It explores the purpose and meaning of the Toyota Production System and how it anticipated today's digital age. Ohno's remarkable work and his unique way of thinking created a new management system that will energize and strengthen corporate digital transformation. Learn why the Toyota Production System is more relevant in the 21st century than it was in the 20th century and how it will help your company survive and prosper in the digital age.In danger of being forgotten as the years go by, critical elements of Ohno's work remain unknown, poorly known, or misunderstood. Ohno reminds us that good thinking, steady work habits, daily improvement, and long-term commitment to a purpose remain necessary now and into the future. Conversations with Taiichi Ohno is an exposition of the management thinking, practice, and decision-making that enables TPS to be established and evolve in your company to achieve success in the digital age.

The REAL LEAN series of books explains Lean management in ways that hundreds of other books do not. These original and creative works are written for hands-on Lean practitioners. Each volume is thoroughly researched and well documented, and provides an abundance of new information and perspectives to help ensure success with Lean management.The fifth volume of the REAL LEAN series presents a set of fundamental strategies that will help assure Lean management success. These strategies encourage executives to study Lean management history, analyze the failures of other companies, obtain a clearer view of reality at ground-level, better utilize internal and external human resources, and have greater confidence in their ability to become self-reliant in their Lean journey.As with prior Volumes of REAL LEAN, Volume Five emphasizes Lean as a management system and the "Respect for People" principle because both are usually missing from the practice of Lean management today.Readers will find this book to be amazingly insightful and filled with practical information that will help them better comprehend and put REAL LEAN into practice every day.

In REAL LEAN - Understanding the Lean Management System (Volume One), Bob Emiliani explains the purposes, advantages, myths, and misinformation surrounding Lean management. In a lively and engaging style, he answers the key questions that leaders of organizations have about Lean management. A perfect read for the busy executive. REAL LEAN is a practical guide to Lean management, complete with interesting and informative linkages to historical events and long-forgotten perspectives. Readers will learn how the two principles of Lean management, "Continuous Improvement" and "Respect for People," work in tandem, with emphasis on "Respect for People" the principle that is often missing from the practice of Lean management. This small book will be a big help to leaders who want to improve their understanding and practice of Lean management.