The Lean Deal

Unbelievable! A textbook that reads like a novel. Michael Althoff succeeds in writing in such a remarkable way that on every page he seems to look over the shoulder of the reader and enter into a dialogue with him beyond the lines read. For the reader, it is a very exciting and practical experience as the author’s magical working world opens up. Michael Althoff manages to address several target groups at the same time, the representatives of the POWER teams as well as the representatives of the NAVIGATIONS teams (you have to read for yourself what is meant by this). The world of lean management is opened up in this book as attitude, joy of life and work and growth fertilizer for humans and organization. While I was still reading, I was inclined to change my workplace in the sense of lean thinking and lean acting, but then I preferred to read on, because the book makes you want more with every page. With lean it goes on and on and indeed into a desirable world. You just have to start and keep at it - first by reading, then by doing. Winfried Mayer, Master of Business & Engineering (MBE), Prokommunikation.de The world certainly doesn't need another “LEAN explanatory book” with cumbersome terms, dust-dry theory and crude recipes for success. Normal books on the subject are mostly purely about optimizing earnings, increasing efficiency and asserting companies in the relevant markets. But my drive for this book is rather what is NOT addressed in these clever works ... namely the HUMAN BEHIND or IN FRONT of these formulas, graphics and clever process knowledge. What does it do to us, how do we as individuals benefit from it, why should we change anything at all and how much energy do we have to invest? The motivation: I would like to be able to simply “pick up” you ALL here and, based on my modest and very easy to understand career, bring you closer to the absolutely ingenious effect and simplicity of the LEAN principles. My goal is that after reading the pages you put the book aside with a smile and think, “Really now? Is it really THAT easy? Ok, I can do THAT too. " And what I really want is that my words seem so important to you that you hand the book into your own hands. From the executive floor to production and REVERSE, from friend to friend, within the family, from colleague to colleague and from business partner to business partner. I am 100% convinced that the insights into the LEAN lifestyle can have such an unbelievably positive effect on each and every one of us that this culture, cross-barrier, cross-border, non-partisan and completely free of animosity, not only improves the life of each individual, but that LEAN is simply THE little revolution that we humans urgently need in these bizarre times in order to let us concentrate on the essentials again. Who is the book for? This book is for you, you hard-working workers, busy managers, frustrated executives, disappointed warehouse workers, skilled workers, foremen, forklift drivers, engineers, exasperated job seekers, large corporations with 100,000 employees or "one-man / woman show", you single mothers or fathers and financially exhausted lone fighters, young job seekers or start-ups - in short: For EVERYONE of you "seekers" :) Do you work in a company that you think could use change or you run a company that is not doing the way it could? This book is for you! How do I break the ice, what are the first steps, and how do I either get “those up there” to rethink or get my team on board? - That should be my subject in this little work. An insight into the content: Who is this Michael Althoff? How my Lean journey began Who are you? The best way to start What is LEAN about? LEAN terms, expressions and deeper meanings Introduction for "3S" and MorningMeeting The so-called "3S" at YELLOTOOLS MorningMeeting YelloMatrix Letting in / adding value The LEAN DEAL - what's “in” for you? The most common questions from Yellotools visitors Kanban The LEAN Language - or how NOT to talk about LEAN Voices, opinions and emotions of other people on the subject of LEAN LEAN vs. Corona / Covid – 19