Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader's Guide to Planning and Execution Paperback – January 1, 2006

Pascal Dennis is one of the great Lean educators that trained with Toyota and truly understands the philosophy. I have been using his other books with my clients for years, and was quite pleased when he wrote this book. It is a good read, using the business book as a story style that may current books take. Pascal also concludes each chapter with an analysis of what he covered in the chapter, and that can be used as a reference as the techniques are applied.A3s are an essential part of applying Lean, and this is the best book for most of us to learn how to use this powerful tool.

"Why are we doing this lean stuff?" "This is just another program of the month." By now you have heard all of the complaints associated with the idea that we need to change the way we do business. You have read some books about the tools,and are getting good at kaizen, but what is your overall strategy for delivering your business objectives? This book is about strategic deployment, using lean to deliver the business objectives. This is an excellent resource, and I refer back to it time after time. It is not for the faint of heart, and before getting this book you should have a good fundamental knowledge of what lean is all about.

this is a fantastic book for everyone from individual contributors to leaders of teams, this is a good way to learn how to help your team on the Lean journey. So many times Lean concepts are lost in translation or execution, and this book shows a simple and minimalistic approach to Lean and getting the important things done

Excellent reference for Lean management and strategy... Book use a bit worn and higlighted

This book increased my knowledge of Six Sigma and A3 processes. I have attended a Six Sigma certification course as well as reading Lean Six Sigma That Works. Getting the Right Things Done uses a fictional company that was once very successful but now struggling. The book goes through the transformation of the company into lean techniques and processes which starts with the buy in from the management team. The fictional company is based on manufacturing air conditioner parts but the examples are easily transferable to other industries and services. The book is an easy read with lots of good charts and drawings to help transfer the points. This book demonstrates A3 processes which improve project management processes.

The book is a wonderful book and I would highly recommend it to everybody. I will tell you that we bought 14 of these books and five of them have the outer cover coming apart and separating with very little use. The book is great but the physical quality needs a lot of improvement, especially since people who purchase this book constantly refer back to it many times.

What a powerful roadmap that is outlined in this book. Love how the story is so easy to follow and yet so practical. This is the book every leadership team must read to help them really translate the power of lean into how they manage and lead their business on a daily basis.

I really enjoyed this book not as a read, but as a workbook tool to use with a management team as we added discipline to our planning process. We had good rhythm, but this help us be much more scientific in our approach. It has help us avoid just grabbing at the urgent items.We went Chapter by Chapter, week by week to prepare for our next quarterly planning efforts.