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Bob Emiliani
Bob Emiliani is a prominent educator, author, and trainer specializing in leadership development, management, and continuous improvement. Now IOE partner.
Who is Bob Emiliani
Along more than 30 years, Bob Emiliani has significantly influenced progressive management principles while challenging traditional practices.
With a passion for continuous improvement and respect for people, Bob Emiliani has dedicated his career to reshaping leadership and management practices. From his early days at Pratt & Whitney, where he applied Toyota’s production system, to his tenure as a professor and prolific author, Bob has been a driving force in the Lean community. His influential works, including the terms “Real Lean” and “Fake Lean,” emphasize the human aspect of Lean transformation. Bob’s groundbreaking ideas continue to shape how organizations build better leaders and improve business outcomes.
Notable Firsts
- First to study “Lean leadership” in 1994 and define “Lean behaviors.”
- Created and taught the first graduate course on Lean leadership starting in 2001.
- Coined terms like “Real Lean” vs. “Fake Lean” to differentiate genuine Lean practices from superficial ones.
- Authored six books between 2018 and 2023 addressing why leaders resist progressive management.
Emiliani continues to innovate, recently introducing the concepts of “Neolean” and “Junk Lean” to describe modern interpretations of Lean management. His ongoing research and publications solidify his role as a leading figure in the field.
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Bob Emiliani's Books
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Speed Leadership
Speed Leadership is more than just a book; it is a simple roadmap to improving leadership and achieving greater personal and business success. Tired of the same old leadership programs that fall short? Discover a new, groundbreaking approach that focuses on understanding leadership as processes and eliminating leadership process errors to improve leaders’ effectiveness.
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune challenges the conventional wisdom of business strategy, offering a fresh perspective on how to drive growth and outperform competitors. Tired of the same old strategies that produce only mediocre results? Discover a new approach that focuses on innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity.
A Changed Perspective
A Changed Perspective offers a new approach to understanding and improving leadership that focuses on preconceptions rather than behaviors. By challenging the conventional wisdom and exploring the underlying preconceptions that shape our thinking, this book provides valuable insights in how to more fully engage people and make better decisions. It deeply explores the sequence: Preconceptions → Beliefs → Behaviors → Competencies.
The Workmanship of Leaders
The Workmanship of Leaders offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the essential nature of leadership. By examining the underlying principles of workmanship in the context of systems, frameworks, and information processing, this book provides valuable insights on how to improve leadership.
A Few More Thoughts
A Few More Thoughts is a compelling collection of essays that offer fresh perspectives on leadership. This 28th and final book by Bob Emiliani provides valuable insights for leaders at all levels.
The Triumph of Classical Management
The Triumph of Classical Management finally solves a 100-year-old problem. The book provides groundbreaking new analysis that explains why Lean and related transformative efforts struggle and often fail. By examining the underlying forces that shape leadership culture, this book offers valuable insights into understanding and overcoming obstacles to major change.
Irrational Institutions
Irrational Institutions offers new explanations for why major change is so difficult to achieve. By examining the underlying forces that shape leadership culture, this book provides valuable insights into overcoming the obstacles to successful improvement.
Management Mysterium
Management Mysterium offers a new perspective on the intangible forces that shape leadership culture and behavior. This book provides valuable insights into the spiritual, sacred, and mysterious aspects of leadership and management.
The Aesthetic Compass
The Aesthetic Compass offers an amazing new perspective on the underlying forces that shape leadership culture and behaviors. This groundbreaking book provides valuable insights into the role of aesthetics in driving decision-making and perpetuating the status quo.
A Changed Perspective
Irrational Institutions offers new explanations for why major change is so difficult to achieve. By examining the underlying forces that shape leadership culture, this book provides valuable insights into overcoming the obstacles to successful improvement.
The Workmanship of Leaders
The Workmanship of Leaders offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the essential nature of leadership. By examining the underlying principles of workmanship in the context of systems, frameworks, and information processing, this book provides valuable insights on how to improve leadership.
A Few More Thoughts
A Few More Thoughts is a compelling collection of essays that offer fresh perspectives on leadership. This 28th and final book by Bob Emiliani provides valuable insights for leaders at all levels.
Kaizen Forever
Kaizen Forever offers a unique and invaluable perspective on the essence of kaizen. Learn from the legendary Chihiro Nakao, the world’s foremost expert on genba kaizen.
Shingijutsu-Kaizen
Shingijutsu-Kaizen offers a unique and invaluable perspective on the true essence of kaizen. Learn from the best, Shingijutsu, who have been helping organizations improve for over three decades.
Conversations with Taiichi Ohno
Conversations with Taiichi Ohno offers a unique and insightful perspective on the mind of a management legend. Through a fictional conversation, this book explores the meaning and purpose of TPS and kaizen, and why they remain highly relevant in the digital age.
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Bob Emiliani's Trainings
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Creative Kaizen
Creative Kaizen is the best, most informative, most practical, and most inspiring online kaizen course available!
This online course provides a detailed description of Toyota-style kaizen. It will help you create a kaizen culture where kaizen part of everyone’s daily work. The result will be faster, lower-cost, and far more effective problem-solving. Take your company to the next level with the Creative Kaizen method! Click here to view a one-minute video.
Speed Leadership
Speed Leadership is an exciting new way to develop leadership skills and capabilities!
This online course vastly simplifies the difficult challenge of leadership development, from supervisor to CEO. It is a new and innovative way to understand and improve leadership by using a process perspective rather than the traditional behavioral perspective. Speed Leadership eliminates the cost and pain of leadership development, and there is no need for complex personal or business transformation. Click here to view a one-minute video.
Strategy Hardening
Strategy Hardening shows you how to turn a good business strategy into a great business strategy!
This online course shows how to remove unseen defects in strategy and execution so that it is hardened against the usual problems or even failure. You will learn a new model for strategy development and engage in a rigorous analysis of real-world strategy failure so that you will not make the same mistakes. Click here to view a one-minute video.
Conquering Barriers
Conquering Barriers: Get ready for some strong stuff!
This online course vividly explains why change is so difficult and what you can do about it. You will learn how and why this happens, and how can it be conquered. And you will enjoy scores of astonishing new insights that will get you thinking like never before. Click here to view a one-minute video.
