I have followed you for many years now.

I have just been given the job of leaning job change in one of our poor performing plants and as usual my managers want me to do lean to the job change.

My strategy as always is to train, motivate and empower the people who do the job changes to lean their own operation/process.

My problem is keeping space between my bosses and job change and isolating the job change guys from measurement that drive the wrong behaviours.

What strategies can I use to give the Adelaide Job Change Team the space and time to lean themselves. ( The Adelaide Job Change Team is totally on board and cannot wait to get started ).

kind regards Alan

Alan Stalker Kaizen Leader O-I Technical Advancement Phone (03)92712811 Mobile 0437003225

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Subject [New post] Lean Transformers

GBMP posted: “A few years ago, after I gave a speech on Lean at a meeting of the Transformer Association (like the kind on the telephone poles providing electricity to your home), my then six-year old son, Ben, asked me if I’d met Megatron. His question caused me to “

It is great when we get reminded of the importance of people, I especially like this line of yours, “Perhaps this is not even a transformation, but more of an actualization of human and organizational capabilities; a realization of the way things ought to be or would be if that creativity weren’t systematically hammered out of us by autocratic management behavior and policy.” It reminded me of something else I have learn along the way.

Nothing created and made by man, ever happen with someone first creating it in their mind. For creativity to occur people also need time to think, to often today managers drive their staff non-stop making sure they have to do things constantly, some where they forget if you want creative ideas, and not more of the same old same old that has never worked, you have to give them time to actually think, without disturbance. It is unfortunate but today we value looking busy over actually thinking, many of our businesses would benefit far more from less meaningless activity and more time given to thinking. It would help tap into a great resource you already have, and would also go a long way toward creating a culture in which ideas drive the business, instead of chasing some competitor.