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		<title>Now on Amazon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lean Team Management is now available on Amazon.com for those who are interested.
All reviews would be welcome. It helps.
Thanks,
Larry
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		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/general/2009/05/15/now-on-amazon/</link>
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		<title>Ordering Lean Team Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon and other online retailers do not yet have Lean Team Management available. They will soon. You can order a single copy from me until the link is available. When the link is available I will create a hyperlink everywhere the manual photo appears to take you to the location on Amazon.
However&#8230; I&#8217;ll make you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/team-development-and-action-learning/2009/03/11/ordering-lean-team-management/</link>
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		<title>Lean Team Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we sold Miller-Howard Consulting Group to Towers Perrin in 1998, the core of our work was implementing team-based organization. We had two workbooks that defined our process and enabled our clients. These were the Team Management manual and Change Management or Whole System Architecture manual.
Because teams are the core social system, the foundation, of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/general/2009/01/22/lean-team-management/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Wealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among other things, and the BIG thing I am working on now is a re-write of the New Capitalism book.
So, why am I re-writing? That book had already been through several revisions and it took me a while to realize that the one important idea in that book, the idea that could make a real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/general/2008/11/01/what-im-working-on-now/</link>
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		<title>Morgan Stanley and the Global Financial Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you doubt that we are decisively entering the age of a global financial village note the following from the WSJ weekly summary:
&#8220;When we left him and Morgan Stanley last week, they were peering into the abyss. This week they are alive to fight another day. Morgan Stanley closed a $9 billion equity injection from Japan’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/the-new-capitalism/2008/10/19/morgan-stanley-and-the-global-financial-village/</link>
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		<title>The Social Capital Deficit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial capital, the focus of so much media attention these days, is a result of, but does not produce, social capital. Our economic woes will not be solved until we come to understand the pillars upon which wealth rests.
Banks aren&#8217;t lending because of trust in one another. As a result, they aren&#8217;t lending to farmers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/general/2008/10/13/the-social-capital-deficit/</link>
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		<title>The Financial Crisis - Blaming the Person for Failures of the System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every media outlet has been struggling to assign blame for current financial crisis. Obviously there was greed. There was incompetence. There was dishonesty. There was arrogance. And many other human failures. Politicians have been attacking &#8220;greed&#8221; by corporate executives. Once again we have discovered that people in high places are mortal souls, mere humans with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/organization-design-and-process-improvement/2008/10/09/the-financial-crisis-blaming-the-person-for-failures-of-the-system/</link>
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		<title>The Strategic Value Stream - How Organizations Create Wealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of corporations is to create wealth&#8230; not only financial wealth for stockholders, but total wealth for society. When corporations build competence in their employees they are creating wealth. When they innovate they are creating wealth. When they build relationships across groups of people and countries they are creating wealth.
Wealth is not only money. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/organization-design-and-process-improvement/2008/01/26/designing-the-system-to-create-value/</link>
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		<title>Lean Organization Requires Alignment of Social and Technical Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more experience one has with Lean manufacturing or organization, the more clear it is that lean is a system in which both human and technical systems have been aligned.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/lean-culture/2006/08/07/lean-organization-requires-alignment-of-social-and-technical-systems/</link>
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		<title>Getting to Lean - Whole System Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lean organizations are a culture, not a technique. How do you create that culture?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lmmiller.com/blog/lean-culture/2006/07/18/getting-to-lean-whole-system-design/</link>
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