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	<description>Ideas to help people implement Lean more effectively</description>
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		<title>Is Lean more than just a set of Tools?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Womack and John Shook are constantly reminding us of the importance of the balance between &#8220;Process&#8221;  (Technical) and &#8220;People&#8221; (Social)  to achieve our organisation&#8217;s &#8220;Purpose&#8221; as we implement Lean in our companies. John Shook has told us that in the eighties we generally had too much weight on the social side of the scale, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/lean-manufacturing/is-lean-more-than-just-a-set-of-tools</link>
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		<title>5S - What is it and how should we implement it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Put simply, 5S is method of creating, maintaining and improving a clean and orderly workplace that exposes waste and errors.  5S helps identify unplanned levels of inventory either as tools, materials, work in progress or finished goods.  Often we can use simple visual processes to help us identify these problems quickly through systems that provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authority vs Responsibility in Lean Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For successful Lean leadership we need to separate responsibility and authority. This seems strange because we normally think that authority and responsibility are linked together. Could this be another Lean thinking paradox!
The focus in a Lean organisation has shifted from &#8220;who has the authority&#8221; to &#8220;what is the right thing to do&#8221;. This is achieved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/lean-manufacturing/authority-vs-responsibility-in-lean-leadership</link>
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		<title>Are we just “getting behind” our Lean initiative or really leading from the front?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our theme of better ways to lead organisational change, how can we ensure that our Lean initiative is not just the introduction of a set of “tools”?  Tools on their own will not translate into a sustainable Lean culture.  A Lean culture will require at least a combination of effective leadership and tools.  If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/lean-manufacturing/are-we-just-%e2%80%9cbehind%e2%80%9d-our-lean-initiative-or-really-leading-from-the-front</link>
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		<title>Is Lean changing the way we think, talk, see, act and react?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Womack is constantly talking about how we are all leaders in our organisations, and that it is not good enough to simply say &#8220;this will never work here because we don&#8217;t have the right leadership&#8221;.  In lean organisations everyone is involved with the improvements, even if it is only improving the flow and eliminating [...]]]></description>
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