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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
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True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series Book 143)
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Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,
... See moreWalter Isaacson • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Yet Green has, like the previous stages, come up with its own breakthrough organizational model, adding three breakthroughs to the previous Orange model. Some of the most celebrated and successful companies of the last decades—companies like Southwest Airlines, Ben & Jerry’s, and The Container Store, to name only few, are run on Green practices
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Andy Grove will always be my model of CEO competence. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, wrote the best management book I’ve ever read (High Output Management), and tirelessly refined his craft.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Institute peer-to-peer recognition. When
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Toyota couldn’t afford those luxuries. In fact, during the postwar years, they couldn’t afford much of anything. They had to find ways to turn Toyota into a lean, mean, automaking machine with little margin for error.‡ Kiichirō, Eiji, and Ohno made three important decisions—three concepts that have become staples of successful manufacturing for ove
... See moreJohn Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Brant and Patrick introduce the value stream discovery process,
Brant Cooper • The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
functional data marts for HR and Sales.