LEAN TEAM BOOKS

5 Books to Help Your Employees

Implement Lean Concepts




THE LEAN OFFICE

 

How to Use Just-in-Time Techniques to 

Streamline Your Office


By: Jim Thompson


 

This book is for everyone who works in an office. Find out how to foster and nurture employee involvement and put excitement back into continuous improvement. Get the tools needed to improve office productivity. Most importantly, reduce employee stress and frustration, while improving productivity. Find out how this happens with employees, not to employees!

 

Jim Thompson is a lean production consultant who studied these systems first-hand while with GM and Toyota in California.

 

The Lean Office - How to Use Just-in-Time Techniques to Streamline Your Office: by Jim Thompson, 138 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-896210-41-4; $24.93 + $9.95 postage. Order now!   MORE INFO   


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LEAN PRODUCTION FOR THE OFFICE

 

Common Sense Ideas To Help Your 

Office Continuously Improve

 

By: Jim Thompson

 


More ideas for everyone who works in an office:

  • Be idea-driven

  • Reduce frustration

  • Add value

  • Let others benchmark you

How to use employees' creativity and ingenuity. Employees' feelings do count. Author, Jim Thompson, is the guru of applying lean production to the office environment.

 

Lean Production for the Office - Common Sense Ideas to Help Your Office Continuously Improve: by Jim Thompson, 136 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-55270-025-9; $24.93 + $9.95 postage.   MORE INFO   

 

 

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LEAN PRODUCTION

 

How to Use the Highly Effective Japanese

Concept of Kaizen to Improve Your Efficiency

 

By: Jim Thompson


 

Learn specific techniques and behaviours to improve your effectiveness. Find out about a system that has been used very effectively at the organizational level for over forty years.

 

Author, Jim Thompson has held senior management positions with General Motors and the Walker Manufacturing Company.


LEAN PRODUCTION - How to Use the Highly Effective Japanese Concept of Kaizen to Improve Your Efficiency: by Jim Thompson, 146 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-896210-42-1; $24.93 + $9.95 postage & handling. Order now!
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The Old Mission Academy

 

A Novel of One Charter School's Experiences 

Implementing Lean Education

 

By: J. K. Thompson

 

 

A novel about more learning for less money. It suggests that it is possible to remove the waste from education using lean production business concepts. It also outlines the controversial issues surrounding the establishment of charter schools. The book ties this into the basics of lean production, which is changing the very nature of how the world will be making things in the 21st century.

 

J. K. Thompson has taught and counseled at the middle and high school levels. He also studied lean production first-hand as a member of the GM Technical Liaison Office with NUMMI (a GM/Toyota joint venture) in Fremont, California, where he became fascinated with its potential application to non-traditional areas, such as offices and schools. He holds BA, MA, EdS degrees together with an MBA from the University of Michigan.

 

The Old Mission Academy by J.K. Thompson, 206 pages; ISBN 978-1-896210-91-9; softcover: $29.93 + $9.95 postage & handling.    MORE INFO   

 

 

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Cooperative Time Management

 

Get more done and have more fun!

 

Chance Massaro & Katheryn Allen-Katz



 

Learn how to define appropriate and important work; how to plan, schedule and defend "quality" work time and how to work effectively with other employees.


Cooperative Time Management: Get more done and have more fun! by Chance Massaro & Katheryn Allen-Katz; 224 pages, softcover; ISBN 978-1-896210-86-5; $34.93 + $9.95 postage & handling.
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