Bob Emiliani
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Bob Emiliani is a renowned author, educator, and trainer in the fields of leadership development, management, and continuous improvement. Today's fast-moving digital age requires new ideas for leading and managing organizations. Let Bob Emiliani guide you toward practical solutions.
Bob Emiliani
4d ago
After making many millions of dollars leading you down the Lean tools path, tricking you into thinking that Lean tools would make your company Lean, you now have the opportunity to spend $1500 per person to take a course where you will “learn why your lean effort is failing, and what to do differently.”
For 25 years, since the publication of the first Lean tools workbook Learning to See, there has been far more Fake Lean than Real Lean and zero examples of Toyota-like Lean transformations as James Womack himself admitted in 2017 and again in 2022.
The Lean Enterprise Institute’s admission of ..read more
Bob Emiliani
6d ago
Learn and appreciate the pioneering work of Masaaki Imai and the Kaizen Institute, and Yoshiki Iwata, Chihiro Nakao, Akiro Takenaka and Shingijutsu for bringing kaizen to the world. Please carefully study these 39 pages and return to the basics: TPS and kaizen! Learn more about the Kaizen Institute, Shingijutsu Global, and Shingijutsu USA.
Kaizen-Institute-Part4Download
NOTE: In 2003, Shingijutsu Co., Ltd. was split into two companies two years after Yoshiki Iwata’s death.
And let us acknowledge and thank the interpreter — Andrew Dillon or Michiko Perry, and soon thereafter Reiko Kano ? — who ..read more
Bob Emiliani
6d ago
Learn and appreciate the pioneering work of Masaaki Imai and the Kaizen Institute, and Yoshiki Iwata, Chihiro Nakao, Akiro Takenaka and Shingijutsu for bringing kaizen to the world. Please carefully study these 39 pages and return to the basics: TPS and kaizen! Learn more about the Kaizen Institute, Shingijutsu Global, and Shingijutsu USA.
Kaizen Institute Part3Download
NOTE: In 2003, Shingijutsu Co., Ltd. was split into two companies two years after Yoshiki Iwata’s death.
And let us acknowledge and thank the interpreter — Andrew Dillon or Michiko Perry, and soon thereafter Reiko Kano ? — who ..read more
Bob Emiliani
6d ago
Learn and appreciate the pioneering work of Masaaki Imai and the Kaizen Institute, and Yoshiki Iwata, Chihiro Nakao, Akiro Takenaka and Shingijutsu for bringing kaizen to the world. Please carefully study these 44 pages and return to the basics: TPS and kaizen! Learn more about the Kaizen Institute, Shingijutsu Global, and Shingijutsu USA.
Kaizen Institute Part2Download
NOTE: In 2003, Shingijutsu Co., Ltd. was split into two companies two years after Yoshiki Iwata’s death.
And let us acknowledge and thank the interpreter — Andrew Dillon or Michiko Perry, and soon thereafter Reiko Kano ? — who ..read more
Bob Emiliani
1w ago
Learn and appreciate the pioneering work of Masaaki Imai and the Kaizen Institute, and Yoshiki Iwata, Chihiro Nakao, Akiro Takenaka and Shingijutsu for bringing kaizen to the world. Please carefully study these 32 pages and return to the basics: TPS and kaizen! Learn more about the Kaizen Institute, Shingijutsu Global, and Shingijutsu USA.
Kaizen-Institute-Part1Download
NOTE: In 2003, Shingijutsu Co., Ltd. was split into two companies two years after Yoshiki Iwata’s death.
And let us acknowledge and thank the interpreter — Andrew Dillon or Michiko Perry, and soon thereafter Reiko Kano ? — who ..read more
Bob Emiliani
1w ago
Critical thinking or scientific thinking. What is the difference? And which should you practice? Let’s begin with definitions of these two cognitive skills:
“Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.” (Source: The Foundation for Critical Thinking)
Scientific thinking is a generalized application of a critical thinking process called the sci ..read more
Bob Emiliani
1w ago
Gaining mass appeal for something usually means to simplify it so that people can both see a need for it and to make it easier to understand and use. That means ensuring the product or service is an advancement while at the same time not breaking so many norms that people avoid it, or confidently suggest a new norm is now acceptable.
The Holy Grail of Lean-world is the mass adoption of Lean management by organizations worldwide. Originally, “Lean” was intended to be a generic term for Toyota Production system (TPS), a method for creating material and information flow by eliminating waste, une ..read more
Bob Emiliani
2w ago
It has been 25 years since the workbook Learning to See was published. The historical consequence of its publication is two-fold: 1) It was the first “Lean tool” book, and 2) People have become more accustomed to drawing value stream maps than eliminating waste.
After 25 years, it’s time to move on and return to the basics, kaizen; combined seeing and doing.
Before this workbook was published, we learned to see waste via genba kaizen. We had no need for either current or future state value stream maps. But today, VSMs have become entrenched as one of the go-to “Lean tools” that people must us ..read more
Bob Emiliani
2w ago
April Fools’ Jokes Posted on LinkedIn
I hope you enjoy my series of seven April Fools’ jokes that I wrote and illustrated. The theme is satire. We have to laugh at ourselves and the absurdities (denial of logic) that people find ways to justify as normal. These April Fools’ jokes are more than humor. They are a window into our world; how we think, what we do, and what we understand or misunderstand. The jokes reflect our history, our success and failure, and the burden or liberation of truth.
1/7 This image satirizes the Lean community’s obsessions with value stream maps and Toyota. It also sa ..read more
Bob Emiliani
2w ago
A song about Toyota and Lean management.
(Verse 1)
Oh Toyota, king of the road, your cars reliable, your work showed us the code
You built a system, a perfect flow, kaizen forever, let the good times grow
(Chorus)
Respect for people, that’s the key, continuous improvement, constantly
But the West came knockin’, got it all wrong, took your TPS, called it Lean, made it cheap not strong
(Verse 2)
Just-in-time, a beautiful dance, eliminate waste, always take a chance
But Lean became slashin’, cuttin’ to the bone, forgot the workers, left them all alone
(Chorus)
Respect for people, that’s the key ..read more