Knowledge Workers in the Lean Enterprise
Knowledge workers are workers whose main capital is knowledge. Typical examples may include software engineers, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, scientists,...
In the Lean World is Leadership Dead?
A couple of days ago I wrote a post citing Peter Block’s article on citizenship. Without reading the article one can mistakenly gain a perception that Block’s position is that leaders in this citizenship model are largely unneeded.
The citizenship model, and Lean thinking, requires …
Lean Citizenship
Thanks to my colleague Steve Knapp I came across a 1998 article by Peter Block on the topic of Citizenship. The thrust of the article was that a shared sense of accountability for the well-being of the larger enterprise is the price of our freedom to participate in self-governing systems, and …