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The Triumph of Classical Management Over Lean Management: How Tradition Prevails and What to Do About It

The Triumph of Classical Management Over Lean Management: How Tradition Prevails and What to Do About It


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The Triumph of Classical Management Over Lean Management answers a question that has frustrated Lean movement leaders and improvement practitioners for decades: Why do executives resist, reject, or ignore a management system that so clearly works better? In four rigorously researched papers that include practical alternatives. The book moves beyond surface-level surface to expose the deep economic, political, and psychological rules that keep classical management firmly entrenched.

This book helps readers by:

  • Diagnosing Why Leaders Resist Lean. Presents a formal study of executive resistance, replacing vague "lack of buy-in" and other surface-level explanations with a thoroughly researched account of the forces that make leaders disengage so that readers stop repeating strategies that were never going to work.
  • Exposing the Politics and Economics at Play. Analyzes the political economy of Lean, revealing the social and economic rule" and power interests that disallow leaders from adopting it, and why logical or ROI-based persuasion can't overcome them.
  • Uncovering the Beliefs Behind Executive Behavior. Examines the metaphysical preconceptions and quasi-spiritual beliefs of CEOs, showing how deeply held assumptions - not evidence - govern their commitment to the status quo.
  • Confronting How Entrenched Practice Might Change. Describes how classical management is too deeply rooted to be dislodged by training or behavior change alone, exploring bolder, more forceful avenues such as public health, duty of care, antitrust, and constitutionality for dismantling it.
  • Offering Alternatives When Leaders Won't Change. Provides concrete paths forward, including a stripped-down flow-based model that respects executives' interests while empowering employees, giving readers something actionable.


This book gives practitioners, change agents, and thoughtful leaders a clear-eyed understanding of the forces they are up against, and the intellectual footing to decide what to do next. It is a demanding, sometimes uncomfortable read, but one that replaces frustration with genuine insight, ideas for improvement, and the comfort of knowing what is really going on.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780989863193
  • Publisher: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Center for Lean Business Management, LLC
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 435 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0989863190
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: How Tradition Prevails and What to Do About It
  • Width: 140 mm


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