A value stream manager for a Tier 1 automobile parts supplier recently declared that the biggest obstacle to sustaining lean is the lack of manager discipline. As examples, he pointed to the day-to-day variation in the schedule of a typical manager. “They don’t even come to work at the same time each day.”
The book Coaching for performance is focused on how you can effectively coach people in order to get the best out of them. It explains clearly the difference between teaching, traditional management and coaching. Furthermore it describes what the limitations of teaching and traditional management are and why coaching is often a more effective approach.
The short message of Super Boom: Why the Dow will hit 38,820 and how you can profit from it by Jeffrey A. Hirsch (www.wiley.com) is that the peak will be reached by 2025, following a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author takes up the question, ‘What makes the market range-bound during wartime and [...]
Top in the list of ‘time wasters’ – in R. Poornalingam’s ‘Your 27 Hour Day: Everybody’s guide to find three extra hours daily’ (www.pqp.in) – is the malaise of endless meetings. Some managers love meetings so much that they call for the same even for minor issues, the author frets. “They probably like human company [...]
Daily Management is the driver of any TQM programme and is a system that enables everyone to know what he or she has to do to make the organization run smoothly. It includes what has to be measured and controlled to make this happen.
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