In the second post I have published this year in the community, “What is the role of a Manager / Team Leader”, I have mentioned that “team training” is one of the main leader mission.

To do so, to be able to share knowledge with the team and increase its overall value, you need, as a leader to gain new competencies, new capabilities to stay a valuable speaker. Basic need.

The second reason is more a personnel challenge.

In Lean Management, as in other domains, it is quite rare to find One definition, One approach, One strength and weakness analyze, One approach, with whom everyone agree…

My past sensei, when a customer asked him for “the“ definition of Lean was used to answer:” I can give you today a definition for Lean Management but I cannot give you “the” definition. Tomorrow, if you ask me again about that topic, my answer will be probably different…”

In Kyoto there is a temple (Ryōan-ji) where you can find a very special zen garden made of 15 rocks. The trick with the garden and the rocks is that you cannot see all of them if you keep one position. To visualize, to understand, to measure rocks size and the garden layout complexity, you need to physically “move” around the garden.

Training is like moving around one topic and increase his understanding. It requires a physical effort and keep you shape!.

To understand Lean Management it is very important to understand from where it comes from? Who was the first operational excellence consultants? In which country? For what motivations ?…

Please find below a first list of books that could help you to increase your Lean understanding:

• The Principles of Scientific Management (Frederick Taylor)
• My life and work (Henry Ford)
• Toyota Production System (Taiichi Ohno)
• The Machine that changed the world (James P. Womack)

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