TY - GEN AU - Brimeyer, Richard D. TI - Working great! : : lean leadership lessons for guiding your organization to excellence SN - 9781138482401 PY - 2019/// CY - Boca Raton, FL PB - Routledge KW - Leadership KW - Lean manufacturing N1 - Includes index; 1. January - Preparing for an Expedition: Assessing the Resolve and Resources to Succeed -- Week 1: Real Improvement Requires Real Change -- Week 2: Keys to Lean Success -- Week 3: Benefiting from Fresh Eyes -- Week 4: Choosing a Guide for the Expedition -- 2. February - Defining the Wilderness: Creating the Place for Lean to Succeed -- Week 5: Taking the Mystery Out of Culture -- Week 6: Maslow and Motivation -- Week 7: Employees That Give a Rip -- Week 8: Making Work Meaningful -- 3. March - Taming the Wilderness: Leadership Behaviors to Build the Culture -- Week 9: Leading and Listening -- Week 10: Servant Leadership (Not an Oxymoron) -- Week 11: Taking Time Off (Spring Break!) -- Week 12: Telling It Like It Is -- Week 13: The Power of "We" -- 4. April - Living in the Wilderness: Rounding-An Intentional Habit for Culture Change -- Week 14: Creating Red Flag Mechanisms While Rounding -- Week 15: Sweating the Soft Stuff -- Week 16: Keeping Score -- Week 17: Getting Out of the Office to Solve Problems -- 5. May - Choosing the Right People for the Expedition: Building a Strong Team -- Week 18: A Most Critical Decision -- Week 19: Tweet This! -- Week 20: Selecting Supervisors -- Week 21: Developing the Bench -- 6. June - Building People for the Expedition: Developing Employees -- Week 22: Re-Recruiting Your Top Performers -- Week 23: The Cornerstone to Healthy Employee Relations -- Week 24: A Model for Coaching -- Week 25: Accountability Basics -- 7. July - The Critical Supply for the Expedition: Time Management and Prioritization -- Week 26: Living on a Fixed (Time) Income -- Week 27: Managing Your Most Precious Resource -- Week 28: Work as a Vocation (Vacation!) -- Week 29: The Cost of Procrastination -- Week 30: Meaningful Meetings -- 8. August - Fundamental Gear: Introducing Foundational Lean Tools -- Week 31: Acting into a New Way of Thinking -- Week 32: Finding Your Inner Factory -- Week 33: Mapping the Expedition -- Week 34: A Solid First Step for the Expedition -- 9. September - One Step Forward, Zero Step Back: Standardizing and Sustaining Every Improvement -- Week 35: 5S Secret Ingredients (Standardize and Sustain) -- Week 36: Cleaning Up the Office -- Week 37: Standard Work: Another Must for Improving Organizations -- Week 38: Auditing for Sustainment -- Week 39: The Best Advice (Fall Trip!) -- 10. October - Building a Perpetual Improvement Machine: Daily Improvements, Mistake Proofing, and Problem Solving -- Week 40: Getting a Little Better Each Day -- Week 41: A Recipe for Continuous Improvement -- Week 42: Mistake Proofing -- Week 43: The Importance of Not Knowing -- 11. November - The Importance of Stories: Case Studies of Successes -- Week 44: Benefiting All Stakeholders -- Week 45: The Rest of the Story -- Week 46: Pursuing Excellence While Patching -- Week 47: Stimulus Success Story -- 12: December - A Glimpse at the Goal: Case Studies from a Lean Culture -- Week 48: Harvesting Great Ideas -- Week 49: Sustaining the Gains -- Week 50: Perfect Products and Services in an Imperfect World -- Week 51: Improving with Customers -- Week 52: A Leaders's Legacy (The Holidays!) ER -