Kanban In 30 days

Self-organization

There is one more important thing about Lean and Agile: the view on decision-making. Many organizations are based on the assumption that employees should be divided into thinkers (managers) and doers (workers). This comes from Frederick Winslow Taylor who was one of the first management consultants. We think Taylor was right when he divided people between thinkers and doers just because at the time, around 1900, when he was active, there was a huge difference in education between managers and workers. His idea was that the educated should tell the uneducated what kind of products they should build and how to build them. This was a great way to get uneducated people productive in advanced industries. Today we usually don't have ...