Gemba Walks, expanded 2nd edition (slightly damaged)

Selection of Womack's most important newsletters, arranged and combined with new material.

"Lean's life is experimenting. All authority for each sensei stems from experiments at the gemba (the place where the work is done), not dogmatic interpretations of sacred text or the number of branches of the founders of the movement. So Lean is not a religion but a daily practice of conducting experiments and gathering knowledge".

This is written by Jim Womack, who over the last 30 years has developed a method for countless companies to visit the Gemba and keenly observes how people work together to create value. Over the past ten years, he has shared his thoughts and discoveries from these visits with the Lean community through a monthly newsletter. In Gemba Walks, Womack has made a selection of his most important newsletters and combined them with new material for additional context.

He shares his insight on topics ranging from the application of specific tools, to the role of management in maintaining Lean, as well as the long-term prospects for this fundamentally new way of creating value. Reading this book will reveal a series of Lean principles to readers, as well as the basis for the critical practice of Lean: go see, ask why, and show respect.

By sharing his personal journey of discovery, Womack sheds new light on the further introduction and development of the most important new business system of the past fifty years. His journey will give courage and inspiration to everyone who applies Lean today.

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