JIT Is Flow is Hirano and Furuya’s latest publication and I believe gives us for the first time in the West an extensive practical overview of JIT/Lean. This book is a wonderful addition to Jeffrey Liker’s The Toyota Way, and books by James P. Womack and others. I am sure that Mr. Ohno and Dr. Shingo would have approved.

Jit Is Flow

Hiroyuki Hirano

Makoto Furuya

PCS Press

We have a certain amount of sadness as we read of the bankruptcy of Delphi Corporation, and the losses and downsizing of General Motors (GM) and Ford. GM and Ford were the world leaders in automobile manufacturing, the richest companies in the world. What happened? Could it have been prevented? And have they, and we, learned a very important lesson to not repeat the mistakes from past? The very purpose of this book is to examine what were the principle things that did go wrong and to give modern managers specific guidelines to think about today to be internationally competitive.

Rebirth of American Industry

Norman Bodek

William H. Waddell

Review\n"A simple approach and a very powerful message.." -- David Veech, Manager, Lean Certification Programs, University of Kentucky\n"Wonderful content, brilliant message. In my opinion you two have a winner" -- Mark Edmundson - President, Lean Affiliates

All You Gotta Do Is Ask

Business & Money

Bodek, Norman

Yorke, Chuck

Management & Leadership

Lean is an all out war against waste of both manufacturing inefficiencies and underutilization of people. 
The Power and Magic of Lean is to discover those hidden treasures within your company: to find and eliminate all of the non-value adding wastes and to bring out the infinite creative capacity from every single worker. 
In the early 1980’s, I met Mr. Ohno, Dr. Shingo, and other great manufacturing geniuses and published their books in English and brought to the west: Lean, JIT, Kanban, 5S, SMED, TPM, QFD, Hoshin, CEDAC, Kaizen Blitz and other powerful improvement tools and techniques. 
Kaikaku is about the discovery of Lean, who I met, how I met them, and the colorful stories about the great manufacturing geniuses of our time. 
Read this book in study groups to strengthen your Lean efforts.

Kaikaku: The Power and Magic of Lean

This book is a companion to The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen and teaches the importance of submitting and implementing improvement ideas at work. When you are empowered to make your own work easier, more interesting and to please your customers through your own ideas the workplace magically changes for you. Quick and Easy Kaizen recognizes that you are the expert in your work area and that your ideas are a valuable input towards your personal growth and success and the success of the company you work for. 
This workbook teaches the principles of Quick and Easy Kaizen, has many examples and also is a place for you to record your ideas and to keep progress of your achievements on the job. In the future when your boss asks you, "What have you done for us lately?" All you have to do is show him/her your workbook.

The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen (Workbook)

Tozawa, Bunji

CEO CoachingSummaryKazuyoshi Hisano, a leader in the world of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, created a new methodology to help CEOs and other leaders to reach new heights for their organizations and themselves. Hisano currently coaches 25 CEOs. He recognizes that these leaders are already successful, but they also can expand their visions and their capabilities by being able to set new high goals for their future. His methodology shows them to set those goals and attain them.Different than most coaches, Hisano does not bring an "agenda," knowledge acquired from past experiences. He simply knows how to ask very pertinent questions to have you reach deep inside yourself to find ways to reach out and establish a new future.Hisano: 1. believes in your unlimited potential, your ability to set and attain future goals.2. has worked with close to 400 CEOs, many leaders, to expand their organizations. 3. helps you stretch your imagination and set very high goals.4. helps you build your confidence in yourself.5. will help you use the power of your intuition to guide to your success.Hisano will introduce you to a whole new terminology and use other familiar words differently to get your mind to act to support your new endeavor to achieve and master your new goals. Here are the examples of some terms.Gold Vision is the title of Hisano's first book, and the term was created to explain how to succeed in life. The core of Gold Vision is to shift your comfort zone, a place where you feel in control of your life, to a new ideal state, to a new comfort zone, that allows you to achieve your future goals. This shift takes place when you set high goals.Gold Vision means "Shiny vision like gold." Gold Vision starts with the importance of setting a high goal. Feed Forward is the title of Hisano's second book. After you set a high goal, you bring attention to attaining your future goal by moving things forward. Feed Forward is the skill and way of perceiving things from the future and to shift the comfort zone to an ideal future. You stop living from your past and move what happens into the future to attain your goals.Cause Theory is the important element that is essential to make the goals bigger and more inspiring. You set your high goal then introspect on your purpose to determine the "causes" that enable you to expand your goals and move you to attain them. Cognitive Science - We use cognitive science to explain how our brain works to shift the comfort zone. According to cognitive science our brain feels real when it has a stronger sense of reality. Even if the thing you imagined is not real yet, "RAS - (Reticular Activating System) - is a built-in screening device in your nervous system and it blocks out or admits information, depending on whether that information is important to you. It's a network of cells and its job is to determine which of the thousands of sensory messages bombarding you every second are going to get through to your awareness." - Personal Coaching for Results by Lou TiceLevels of abstraction - The degree of detail at which a system is viewed or programmed. The higher the level, the less detail. The lower the level, the more detail. The highest levels of abstraction is the entire system. As we go up the levels of abstraction, conceptualization increases, and detail recedes.Execution - The ability to act and achieve. It consists of "ability to plan", "ability to overcome difficulties," and the "ability to continue with steadiness. "This book takes you on a journey that can change your life and the life of others around you for the better. I hope you enjoy the journey.

CEO Coaching: How to grow without limits!

Hisano, Kazuyoshi

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