My Reading List

The following list of books is my recommended list of books. Each image is a link to give you quick access to amazon if you have not read it yet and want to add it to your reading list as well.

Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions
Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award
The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a Lean transformation, this is where you should start and finish … and start again.
Most company’s change initiatives fail. Yours don’t have to.
If you read nothing else on change management, read these 10 articles (featuring “Leading Change,” by John P. Kotter). We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization.”
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management will inspire you to:
Lead change through eight critical stages
Establish a sense of urgency
Overcome addiction to the status quo
Mobilize commitment
Silence naysayers
Minimize the pain of change
Concentrate resources
Motivate change when business is good


This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail” by John P. Kotter, “Change Through Persuasion,” “Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano,” “Radical Change, the Quiet Way,” “Tipping Point Leadership,” “A Survival Guide for Leaders,” “The Real Reason People Won’t Change,” “Cracking the Code of Change,” “The Hard Side of Change Management,” and “Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change.”

kamishibai boards are practical visual control tools that assist with the allocation, sequencing, execution and follow-up of key work routines and tasks. They are visual management tools much like hour-by-hour production status boards. If hour-by-hour boards are used during the shift and on an hourly or bi-hourly cadence, kamishibai boards are used for weekly, monthly and even quarterly audits.

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This Kamishibai system is what I used to set up my Leader Standard Work in a dynamically visual way. The accompanying CD included templates in Excel format that were used to create my own LSW Card templates.