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Recommended Reading

For the benefit of our clients and those viewing our website, we have compiled a list of books our Master Black Belt Associates recommend for reading on the subject matter of Lean, Lean Six Sigma, and Six Sigma.  Our Associates each have more than 14 years of experience practicing and applying the tools in the Lean Sigma industry so we value their input!

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck 

The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox 

The Six Sigma Way Team Field Book: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams

Peter S Pande, Robert P Neuman, and Roland R Cavanagh

The Toyota way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

Jeffrey Liker

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard 

Switch:  How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Dan Heath and Chip Heath

One Bite at a Time: How Every Manager can use Six Sigma to Make a Difference

David Brewster and Gary Calwell

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By NassimNicholas Taleb

World Class Quality: Using Design of Experiments to Make It Happen

By Keki Bhote and Adi Bhote

Lean Software Development An Agile Toolkit

By Mary Popendieck

Learning to See

By Mike Rother and John Shook

Creating Level Pull

By Art Smalley

Making Materials Flow

By Rick Harris, Chris Harris, Earl Wilson, & Jim Womack

Juran's Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence 6/e

By Joseph Defeo and J.M. Juran

Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers

By Douglas C. Montgomery and George C. Runger

Out of Crisis

By W. Edwards Deming

Kaizen for the Shopfloor

By Productivity Press Development Team