Ok, ordered it. The two books I recommended have at least a sub theme
of employee engagement, something I don't see in my current job.
-- Matt
On 06/24/2015 10:14 AM, Stephen Potter wrote:
I was revisiting an old favorite of mine last night, "The Great Game
of Business" by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham, and thought it worth
mentioning as well. The book is really written more for the manager
point of view and focuses more on how to decrease costs and increase
production in a manufacturing (actually re-manufacturing in this case)
plant, but it is another one of those ones to help you really
understand why you need to know every part of the business. There is
a lot of tongue-in-cheek which makes it a fairly fun read.
The book is the story of how Jack and a number of other managers
bought Springfield Remanufacturing when International Harvester was
planning to get rid of it during the '80s recession and what they did
to make it successful. They were one of the early adopters of the
concept known as Open Book Management. OBM underlying strategy is
that people do better (and companies do better) when they have a full
understanding of the business and where they fit into it (and how
their actions affect others and vice versa) instead of just the
information they need to do their job. OBM works very nicely along
side agile and lean DevOps.
There are some activities they did that sound crazy, they tasked a
manager to find out why they used so much toilet paper and was that an
appropriate amount. However, if you start to think about why the did
it and the results they found, as opposed to thinking of the "easy"
answers (using cheaper toilet paper, setting limits, making people
bring their own, etc), you can start to understand how those same
concepts are related to other situations (before you laugh at things
like bring your own toilet paper; how many of us provide some or all
of our own tools as a cost savings measure).
-spp
On 6/23/2015 12:08 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
I have recently read "Toyota Kata" and "The Open Organization".
Recommended.
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