Just to give you a flavor of where I'm coming from with my blogging, here is a list of books that I've read, and that I feel have greatly contributed to my understanding of Lean, kaizen, operational excellence, and business in general. I highly recommend them all (in no particular order):
- The Toyota Way
- The Toyota Way Fieldbook
- Toyota Talent
- Toyota Kata
- Lean Hospitals
- Lean Thinking
- Lean Solutions
- The Machine That Changed the World
- The Checklist Manifesto
- Creating a Lean Culture
- Understanding Variation
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean
- On the Mend
- Managing to Learn
- Lean Production Simplified
- Gemba Kaizen
- Getting the Right Things Done
- Learning to See
- Broken Windows, Broken Business
- Andy & Me
- The Visual Factory
- Influence: Science and Practice
- Profit Beyond Measure
- The Goal
- Understanding A3 Thinking
- The 5th Discipline
- From Good to Great
- Drive
- The Shibumi Strategy
- Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals
- In Pursuit of Elegance
- Tribes
