The Personal Profile of Lean Leader of Leaders

摘要

Today companies worldwide are implementing Lean and hereby make their company more effective. It is our observation, that companies are capable of implementing the various tools and techniques of Lean (VSM, Kaizen, Policy deployment, Performance management and PDCA etc. At the same time, it is our experience that many companies struggle or even fail to develop a CI culture. The authors behind this paper consider a lack of essential mindset and personality traits of the Lean leaders as a major contributor to these struggles. The aim of this paper is to address the question: Which personality traits does Excellent Lean leader of leaders have? As an attempt to answer that question, this paper presents a profile description of an excellent Lean leader of leaders based on an assessment made by a Lean experts panel composed from 26 different Danish companies. The personality profile is divided into 16 traits and furthermore compares the profile to the average Dane.