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Michael Ballé, Lead With Respect, His New Lean Management Novel
Today's guest is Michael Ballé, an author of many novels about Lean management, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. He joins us for this episode from Paris (he shares many photos of “Paris moments” via his Twitter account @Michael_Balle).
Michael and his father, Freddy, have collaborated on these books and have learned about as directly from Toyota as anybody (Freddy was CEO of the French automotive supplier Sommer-Allibert and was coached by Toyota there).
The three novels are:
The Gold Mine
The Lean Manager
Lead With Respect
See all of his books via Amazon
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