The Lean Tour

"Lean management doesn't work for us!", Lean expert Michael Habighorst hears in many companies. His diagnosis: The knowledge of methods is not sufficient, there is a lack of a deep understanding of what constitutes agile procedures and "lean" at its core.

In a self-experiment, the convinced lean advocate impressively demonstrates how universally applicable the lean philosophy is: he rode his bicycle all alone from Freiburg to the North Cape and back – 9,149 kilometers. From the exciting, surprising, sometimes also absurdly funny events during his exhausting bike tour, he derives all the important principles of lean management. Concise, authentic stories from companies complement the travelogue.

From the content:

- Against the Wind: Only shared success is real success

- 9,149 kilometers: Why Lean?

- Give chain: agile approach

- Freiburg–North Cape and back: Long-term goals

- Energy guzzlers: solving problems

- Pockets in the pocket: Synchronizing processes

- That's enough: avoid waste

- 6 hours per day: building rhythm

- At the limit: Avoid overload

- On the road to success: Change as a normal condition