• Gemba Walks, Expanded 2nd Edition

  • By: Jim Womack
  • Narrated by: Jim Womack
  • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (222 ratings)

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Gemba Walks, Expanded 2nd Edition

By: Jim Womack
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In 12 new essays ranging from the provocative to the practical, and written specially for the second edition of Gemba Walks, author and management expert Jim Womack reflects on the past 30 years of lean and assesses the current state of lean today.

He also shares thoughts on how lean thinking and practice can continue to make the world a better place by gaining traction in areas such as government and health care, provides practical guidance for how leaders everywhere can realize the full benefits of a lean management system, and shares hope for continued improvement on the path to better work and more value.

Over the past 30 years, Womack has developed a method of going to visit the gemba at countless companies and keenly observing how people work together to create value. He has shared his thoughts and discoveries from these visits with the lean community through a monthly letter. With Gemba Walks, Expanded 2nd Edition, Womack has selected and reorganized his key letters and written 12 new essays.

Gemba Walks shares his insights on topics ranging from the application of specific tools to the role of management in sustaining lean as well as the long-term prospects for this fundamental new way of creating value. Hearing this book will reveal to listeners a range of lean principles as well as the basis for the critical lean practice of go see, ask why, and show respect.

©2013 Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc. (P)2014 Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.

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A great story, a great teacher, a great human been

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Dr.Woomak is not only a grean lean thinker but a great human been. his method to teach is simple and direct' love this man!

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When he explains his mistakes in the bike shop.

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made me a better person and a better professional

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Really valuable experience sharing...

by one of the greatest contributers and advocates of Lean/TPS development throughout the world. Very inspiring!

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A Treasure! A marvelous Treasure

I listened to this book during several plane rides - on my way to Gemba Walks. I have Gemba Walked on 4 continents, this book is great and very true to life in manufacturing.

If I were teaching college students for Industrial, Manufacturing, or Systems Engineering majors...I would make sure this book was read.

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A useful set of essays on lean practices

I enjoyed listening to the informal nature of this collection of essays online. There’s some repeating of phrases, but I think overall, that’s helpful. I found it instructive to hear the case examples and to hear the speaker. Repeat the need for observing issues firsthand and valuing the intelligence of the employee to help come up with a solution. The speaker comes off as very experienced, knowledgeable, and emotionally, intelligent, able to identify the pitfalls of human nature, and point those out so that we can work on ourselves to improve both the process, and ourselves on the way.

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Pretty good history, a little preachy

The author has been on the front of defining lean since the birth of the name. He offers many insights into the development of lean. He is idealistic at times, imaging lean to be the answer to all questions. That said, in gleaned some insight into lean that you do not get from the text books that make lean a little more realistic for me.

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stopped working

stopped working an hr into it! will not start back up again! has anyone else experienced this?

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Overall it was just ok

3:45 ch64
He messes up says, “god damnit”, then leaves it in. Funniest thing I ever listened too.

Overall the book was mostly reiterating the same thing. It could have been shorter or worded better to save on space. I understand that they want it to be more casual, but it just doesn’t seem to work.

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so much to learn

This book was a pleasure to listen to on audible. The organization of this book was excellent and the length of the chapters made it very enjoyable. There is so much knowledge about lean theory and practicality in this book. I highly recommend it.

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Great insight!

As a Lean Practitioner, the insights from the book help bring Jim's extensive experience to the less practiced. Key points I haven't yet had to consider bring up real world challenges; like getting a bank loan with a company that is so lean, it doesn't have a whole lot of physical assets! Though it's a collection of essays and thus, a little scattered, it's a must read for anyone serious about lean.
#Lean #SelfDevelopment #Excellence #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

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LEAN Engineers must Read

A LEAN Engineers must read - succinct and relevant in today's volital volital political envirenment.

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