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[Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alberto Salvia Novella:
> Good management is not about assigning tasks, but about empowering
> people. So it is more related with training and
> building smart systems, than with administration.

Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> This is an interesting philosophy; I'm always eager to learn more and
> improve my team management skills.  Do you have URLs to some of the
> larger projects you have lead to a successful landing so I can learn
> more?

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 THIS IS RAW WELL PROVEN SUCCESSFUL LEAN
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Toyota Production System:
> The Toyota Way is a set of principles and behaviours that are followed
> by Toyota Motor Corporations Management. The concepts have been put
> to use by hundreds of companies with great success.

37 signals:
> We started out in 1999 as a three-person Web-design consulting firm.
> In 2004, we weren't happy with the project-management software used
> by the rest of the industry, so we created our own: Basecamp. When we
> showed the online tool to clients and colleagues, they all said the
> same thing: "We need this for our business too." Five years later,
> Basecamp generates millions of dollars a year in profits.


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 IF UBUNTU IS BASED ON LEAN, LEAN IS BASED ON PULLING NOT PUSHING
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Toyota Production System:
> Minimize your work in process inventory and warehouse storing small
> quantities of products as often and replacing it in the client is
> actually carries.

Toyota Production System:
> Supply your customers downstream in the production process they want,
> wherever they want, in the quantity they want. The material
> replenishment based on consumption is the basic principle of
> just-in-time.

Toyota Production System:
> Eliminate waste is only a third of the equation for success of lean.
> It is as important to avoid overloading people and equipment and
> remove differences in the production schedule; however this is
> something you usually do not understand companies trying to implement
> lean principles.

37 signals:
> Long lists never get done.


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 DIVERSITY MEANS RESISTANCE TO FAILURE
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Toyota Production System:
> Employees must be educated and trained: they have to maintain a
> learning organization.

Toyota Production System:
> Grow leaders who thoroughly understand the work, live the philosophy,
> and teach it to others.

Toyota Production System:
> Capture the accumulated knowledge a process to a given time by
> standardize current best practices. Allow creative and individual
> expression improve that standard; then enter that improvement in a
> new standard so that when an employee moves you to to pierce the new
> knowledge employed.

Toyota Production System:
> Use multifunctional teams to improve quality and productivity and
> encourage work-flow in solving technically difficult problems.
> Autonomy occurs when staff uses company tools to improve the company.

37 signals:
> Hire managers of 1.


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 WHY INSISTING ON THIS
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Toyota Production System:
> Train exceptional individuals and teams to work within the philosophy
> so achieved corporate results are exceptional. Work very hard to
> reinforce the culture continually.

37 signals:
> Of course, requiring some baseline level of experience can be a good
> idea when hiring. It makes sense to go after candidates with six
> months to a year of experience. It takes that long to internalize the
> idioms, learn how things work, understand the relevant tools, etc.
>
> But after that, the curve flattens out. There's surprisingly little
> difference between a candidate with six months of experience and one
> with six years. The real difference comes from the individual's
> dedication, personality, and intelligence.