By Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center

A friend of mine, Kurt Woolley at Intel, has written an article for Industry Week that is quite popular. I thought I would share it here. It’s title is:

The Key to a Successful Lean Journey? Leadership!

Kurt talks about some of my favorite topics in leading lean. He focuses on 4 key roles of a lean leader:

1. Removing ambiguity by teaching the organization to structure and standardize its activities;
2. Reinforcing and working on the system by helping people identify and solve problems;
3. Constantly setting the vision and ideal state… which creates healthy tension in the system; and
4. Practicing new learnings through application, application, application.

I encourage you to enjoy Kurt’s article and experiences.

About LeanBlog.org: Mark Graban is a consultant, author, and speaker in the “lean healthcare” methodology, focused on improving quality and patient safety, improving access, reducing costs, and fully engaging healthcare professionals. He is also the Chief Improvement Officer for KaiNexus.

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