Lean Article on Self-Help, Ideas, Learning Lean

This article is about a group of people in a company learning lean using a grass roots effort. I can't stress how important it is for the lean effort in your company to take a similar approach, but must be led by a leader with authority.

People love to get involved with something when it addresses both their intrinsic desires and they can contribute to the group and especially when a leader is learning with them. Someone (Rousseau?) once said, "to make him the master, you must become the apprentice."

Plus, this article mentions Alan Robinson's book, "Ideas are Free" in which idea generation is at the heart of the TWI Job Methods program. In fact, Alan Robinson will be at the 2008 TWI Summit in Orlando FL.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120221982127644097.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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