ABSTRACT
Leadership is a topic that applies more broadly than Lean management, to be sure. It is regularly discussed whenever the subject is organizational change. A Lean conversion initiative is properly and usefully thought of as this kind of change, as well as a change in the technical ins and outs of production systems. That is because good engineering does not by itself make for effective change, not by a long shot. Without effective leadership, most large-scale changes in systems do not go well and do not perform up to advertised expectations.
