what makes effective Lean Leaders?
This was selected as Best Answer Dear Robert, I would describe my effective lean leader to have following characteristics – 1. Patience – You can change the software program or change the configuration of machine to give you the expected result. But when it comes to human-beings, you have to patient to implement, wait and analyze, correct and implement again. One step at a time, make it a iterative process. 2. Clear Vision – Before bringing change at an enterprise level, as a lean leader you must know what strategic figures you want to achieve? 3. Delegate – If you think you will direct people to stop wastage – print on both the sides of paper or practice austerity – fly economy class etc, you are quite likely to fail. Why? Because you haven’t won support of your colleagues but you are imposing a rule on them. You haven’t set any target for them to achieve. But you want them to achieve something which no one knows. Therefore, delegate. Make heterogeneous teams across the organization a