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Lernzone!Verbesserung führen - Führung verbessern
"Wir brauchen Führungskräfte, die Orangenbäume pflanzen, nicht Manager, die aus gepflückten
Orangen, den letzten Saft pressen."
Converge v2.0
What is the best Lean Method?
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There is often a competition of methods in the Lean-Community…
…and the questions wich method is the right one raises frequent discussion.
Lean Leadership
Lean Innovation
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Scrum
Kaizen Blitz
Lean Six-sigma
Kata
Agile
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Question to consider: What if this is the wrong question?
Why could that bee?
Because to many questions there is not a single true answer.
Then the discussion would be waste.
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Example
Question: If you had a gun in your hand right now, should you kill another human being?
Answer: Certainly not!
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Answer: Well…
Situation: You come home and find an intruder about to shoot your family with an automatic gun. He is facing you with his back and has not recognized you yet.
Remember: You have less then 1 second to decide.
Question: If you had a gun in your hand right now, should you kill another human being?
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Philosophers use the concept of consilience to find answers to such questions.
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Principle: If independent, unrelated sources come to the same conclusion (answers converge), we can assume, that the „truth“ is likely to be in this direction.
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So, what does this mean for the Lean-Community?!!
Well, we should change the question…
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Old Question: How do the methods differ and which is the right one?
New Question: To what principles do the methods converge?
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Here is what I have come up with so far…
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People and ability instead of output metrics and content.
Small steps and validation instead of plans and implementation.
Enable decentralized and autonomous decisions and actions.
Kata
ScrumLean Development
Lean InnovationAgile
…
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Let’s start finding out more about the common principles the methods converge to.!Do this by picking a method, constantly improving it and sharing your insights.
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If you like this idea please share your insight towards which principles the methods converge.!
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Final though: One way to improve a „method for improvement“ is by applying it to itself.