Compression : Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability Through Vigorous Learning Enterprises

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ISBN: 9781439806548 | 1439806543
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Copyright: 10/2/2009

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Conventional business mindsets drive wasteful behavior and should be replaced today with process- or systems thinking. Going beyond the prescriptions of many management experts, this book examines the global limitations (including a shortage of resources) that will compel organizations to switch from a model of economic expansion to one of retreat and even attrition. A founding member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, author Robert W. Hall, draws on his wealth of industry experience to outline a model of vigorous learning that will provide all stakeholders with access to new tools and new paradigms that eschew outdated learning methods.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Understanding the Challenges of Compression	p. 1
Resource Shortages	p. 3
Fossil Energy	p. 3
Fresh water	p. 6
A Precarious Environment	p. 9
Honeybees	p. 12
Freon and the Ozone Hole	p. 13
Oceanic Plankton	p. 14
Excessive Consumption	p. 16
Pushback from the Have-Nots	p. 24
Self-Learning Work Organizations	p. 32
Meeting the Challenges	p. 34
Vigorous Learning Organizations	p. 35
Health Care as an Example	p. 36
Rethinking Expansionary Assumptions	p. 36
Taking on the Challenges of Compression	p. 38
Endnotes	p. 39
Learning from Toyota	p. 45
The Toyota Way	p. 46
The Toyota Production System	p. 47
TPS Techniques	p. 47
Objective of TPS: Eliminate Waste	p. 49
Creating a TPS Learning System	p. 51
The Role of Standard Work in Kaizen	p. 52
The Seedbed: An Economic Microcosm	p. 56
Ohno's Method	p. 58
Toyota's Supplier Association	p. 60
The Toyota Product Development System	p. 61
Expert Engineering Workforce	p. 64
Responsibility-Based System	p. 64
Set-Based Engineering	p. 64
The Chief Engineer	p. 65
Ethnic Culture and The Toyota Way	p. 65
Lean Manufacturing	p. 68
Learning and Work Culture	p. 71
Lessons from Toyota Today	p. 77
Endnotes	p. 79
Learning to Learn	p. 81
Improving Your Learning Processes	p. 82
Individual Learning	p. 83
Neural Learning Mechanisms	p. 83
"Natural" Learning	p. 85
The Limits of Rationality	p. 87
Integrative Learning	p. 89
Absolutism and Denial	p. 90
Compression of Process Learning	p. 91
A Broader Definition of Waste	p. 92
Big-Step Innovative Learning	p. 94
The Implications of Learning Curves	p. 95
Compression and Increasing Complexity	p. 98
Energy, Information, and Process Learning	p. 99
A Tree Doesn't Grow to the Moon	p. 101
Scientific Learning	p. 103
Self-Similar Scientific Process Learning at Work	p. 106
Broadening Your View of Waste	p. 109
Mapping Your Opportunities	p. 112
Life-Cycle Analysis	p. 114
Practicalities of Measurement	p. 115
Action Steps to Start Learning	p. 117
Organizational Learning	p. 118
Creating a Learning Language	p. 120
Innovative Learning	p. 122
Forming Bonds of Trust	p. 126
Higher Context Learning	p. 127
Endnotes	p. 128
Dispelling Our Expansionary Habits	p. 133
Compressed in the Cosmos	p. 133
The Blinding Mind-Set	p. 139
Dysfunctional Assumptions	p. 141
Unlimited Growth	p. 143
Economy of Scale	p. 143
Short-Term Bias	p. 144
Results Bias	p. 145
Specialization and Inflexibility	p. 147
Fragmentation and Tribalism	p. 148
Inability to Simplify Complexity	p. 148
Complacency and Panic	p. 150
Commodity Traps	p. 151
Market Rationality	p. 152
Model Fixation	p. 154
Ownership Dominance	p. 155
Money as the Common Language	p. 158
Inability to Simplify Complexity	p. 160
Commercial Competition; Commercial Reciprocity	p. 160
Health Care and Bioscience	p. 161
Commercial Journalism	p. 166
Spin Doctoring	p. 170
Commercial Conflict and Reciprocity	p. 173
Questioning the System	p. 174
Endnotes	p. 176
Creating Vigorous Learning Enterprises	p. 181
Vigorous Learning Enterprise Overview	p. 182
Common Mission and Goals	p. 185
Behavioral Skill Building	p. 187
Change the Environment, Change the Behavior	p. 188
On Becoming Professional	p. 193
An Integrated Learning System	p. 195
Metaperception	p. 199
Roles of Core Leadership	p. 200
External Leadership	p. 200
Leadership: Sustaining Trust	p. 201
Leadership: Developing Others	p. 203
Leadership: Defending a Learning Culture	p. 205
Performance Measurement	p. 206
Compressing Your Learning Processes	p. 211
Endnotes	p. 212
Developing the Constitution for Vigorous Learning	p. 215
Deep Challenges	p. 216
Toward a Stronger Constitution	p. 218
Why This Approach?	p. 220
A Global Tribe	p. 223
Implications of Tribalism at Work	p. 224
Trust and Tribal Bonding	p. 226
A Process Theory of Value	p. 228
Problems with Existing Theories of Value	p. 228
Attempts to Overcome Weaknesses	p. 232
What a Process Theory of Value Must Do	p. 235
Process Evaluation	p. 236
New Considerations	p. 241
New Consideration: Accumulations	p. 241
New Consideration: Life-Cycle Energy	p. 242
New Consideration: Life-Cycle Operations	p. 244
New Consideration: Thermodynamic Currency	p. 245
Implications of a Process Theory of Value	p. 248
Thermodynamic Efficiency	p. 248
Financing Missions	p. 248
Rapid Adaptability	p. 249
Allocation of Commodities or Permits	p. 249
Flat Age Demographic Profile	p. 249
Employment and Unemployment	p. 250
Little Distinction between Profit, Nonprofit, and Government Work Organizations	p. 250
An End to Hot Wars Using Resource-Intensive Weaponry	p. 250
Auditing Vigorous Learning	p. 251
Committing to the Learning Constitution	p. 253
Endnotes	p. 254
About the Author	p. 257
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