Alberto Salvia Novella: > Good management is not about assigning tasks, but about empowering > people. So it is more related with training and > building smart systems, than with administration.
Stephen M. Webb wrote: > This is an interesting philosophy; I'm always eager to learn more and > improve my team management skills. Do you have URLs to some of the > larger projects you have lead to a successful landing so I can learn > more? ----------------------------------------- THIS IS RAW WELL PROVEN SUCCESSFUL LEAN ----------------------------------------- Toyota Production System: > The Toyota Way is a set of principles and behaviours that are followed > by Toyota Motor Corporations Management. The concepts have been put > to use by hundreds of companies with great success. 37 signals: > We started out in 1999 as a three-person Web-design consulting firm. > In 2004, we weren't happy with the project-management software used > by the rest of the industry, so we created our own: Basecamp. When we > showed the online tool to clients and colleagues, they all said the > same thing: "We need this for our business too." Five years later, > Basecamp generates millions of dollars a year in profits. ------------------------------------------------------------------ IF UBUNTU IS BASED ON LEAN, LEAN IS BASED ON PULLING NOT PUSHING ------------------------------------------------------------------ Toyota Production System: > Minimize your work in process inventory and warehouse storing small > quantities of products as often and replacing it in the client is > actually carries. Toyota Production System: > Supply your customers downstream in the production process they want, > wherever they want, in the quantity they want. The material > replenishment based on consumption is the basic principle of > just-in-time. Toyota Production System: > Eliminate waste is only a third of the equation for success of lean. > It is as important to avoid overloading people and equipment and > remove differences in the production schedule; however this is > something you usually do not understand companies trying to implement > lean principles. 37 signals: > Long lists never get done. --------------------------------------- DIVERSITY MEANS RESISTANCE TO FAILURE --------------------------------------- Toyota Production System: > Employees must be educated and trained: they have to maintain a > learning organization. Toyota Production System: > Grow leaders who thoroughly understand the work, live the philosophy, > and teach it to others. Toyota Production System: > Capture the accumulated knowledge a process to a given time by > standardize current best practices. Allow creative and individual > expression improve that standard; then enter that improvement in a > new standard so that when an employee moves you to to pierce the new > knowledge employed. Toyota Production System: > Use multifunctional teams to improve quality and productivity and > encourage work-flow in solving technically difficult problems. > Autonomy occurs when staff uses company tools to improve the company. 37 signals: > Hire managers of 1. ----------------------- WHY INSISTING ON THIS ----------------------- Toyota Production System: > Train exceptional individuals and teams to work within the philosophy > so achieved corporate results are exceptional. Work very hard to > reinforce the culture continually. 37 signals: > Of course, requiring some baseline level of experience can be a good > idea when hiring. It makes sense to go after candidates with six > months to a year of experience. It takes that long to internalize the > idioms, learn how things work, understand the relevant tools, etc. > > But after that, the curve flattens out. There's surprisingly little > difference between a candidate with six months of experience and one > with six years. The real difference comes from the individual's > dedication, personality, and intelligence. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
