The difference between Being Lean and Doing Lean
I first saw this visual in 2013, I did not understand it. I then saw it again in 2015, still, I did not understand it. I went to Japan, and I heard the true meaning of this visual, and it did not sink in.
Today, 5 years later, I am putting an online course together for Takashi Harada in Japan, and the late Norman Bodek (1932-2020) and as I listen to the videos once again, it clicks. Takashi Harada explained it in very simple terms.
The Harada Method (a system created by Takashi Harada) helps people achieve success. What success means to you is anyone's guess, but you have a framework to achieve that by using this system. That said, at the base of everything Harada teaches is Good Character.
Good character is a requirement not a nice-to-have. Takashi shares that in everything we do we must think of others and build our success around helping others. Only then will we achieve success in the right way. Long-story-short the upper rectangle represents the doing part of Lean, and the lower rectangle represents the being part of Lean. Mr. Harada does not use the word Lean. But the Godfather of Lean - Norman Bodek - says the Harada Method is the missing from every Lean implementation done to date. I have to agree.
Here is a video of a Mazda dealership in Kobe Japan, that has used the Harada Method to go from being the worst to being the best. They did this by training people to live the purposed of their organization. Not to focus on numbers alone, like many North American organizations emphasis. Make the numbers! Make the month end! Make the quarter! Make the year end! Everybody.... stop freaking Making and start Being!
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Mazda realized that they needed to spend more focus on being Happy so they created their 5-Happy system. What are you doing? Making everyone miserable by going after the numbers? Or, are you developing people to their fullest potential, using the numbers as a measuring stick? Are you experiment using numbers and asking what do you think we can do, and comparing that to what we actually did? Are you doing things for the learning, or are you doing things so that you can determine who you should let go?
Don't worry, be happy. join the online course and get the full details of this system. iI will guide you all the way.
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2yIs not servant leadership the foundation for many many great things in the world? I am so proud of my 7 year old daughter who received a servant leadership award only after few months studying in her new Christian school. If we cannot serve, we cannot lead!