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A Spotlight on Leaders: What We Can Still Learn from Danaher and Wiremold

By Art Byrne and Tom Ehrenfeld

May 17, 2021

Watch Legendary lean pioneer Art Byrne, author of The Lean Turnaround and The Lean Turnaround Action Guide, in a lively conversation about how he and others managed to adopt lean successfully at Danaher Corporation and The Wiremold Company.

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Watch Legendary lean pioneer Art Byrne, author of The Lean Turnaround and The Lean Turnaround Action Guide, in a lively conversation about how he and others managed to adopt lean successfully at Danaher Corporation and The Wiremold Company (now owned by Legrand.)

Art shares the powerful common sense at the core of the myriad experiments conducted to create both episodic improvements—and, ultimately, a culture of continuous improvement. You will learn the value of “learning by doing” lean, the importance of top leaders joining the work directly, and the benefits of taking a humble approach to coaching people in this challenging work. During this event, you’ll have ample opportunity to ask questions or share comments you have regarding your lean journey with Art.

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About Tom Ehrenfeld

Tom Ehrenfeld is a writer and editor living in Cambridge, MA. A former writer/editor with Inc. Magazine and Harvard Business Review, he is the author of The Startup Garden: How Growing A Business Grows You. He works as a consulting editor for LEI and with many other lean authors. Nine of his edited books have won the Shingo Research…

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About Art Byrne

Retired CEO, The Wiremold Company

Author, The Lean Turnaround and The Lean Turnaround Action Guide

Best known as the CEO who led an aggressive lean conversion that increased The Wiremold Company’s enterprise value by 2,467% in just under ten years, Art is the author of the best-selling books The Lean Turnaround and The Lean Turnaround Action Guide. His lean journey began with his first general manager’s job at General Electric Company in January 1982. Later, as group executive of Danaher Corporation, Art worked with Shingijutsu Global Consulting from Nagoya, Japan, all ex-Toyota Corporation experts, to initiate lean at Danaher. 

During his career, the Shingo Institute recognized Art with two awards: it bestowed the Shingo Prize to Wiremold in 1999 while he was CEO and the Shingo Publication Award to The Lean Turnaround Action Guide in 2018. Art is also a member of the AME (American Association of Manufacturing Excellence) Hall of Fame and the IndustryWeek magazine Manufacturing Hall of Fame. In addition, he has written the popular “Ask Art” articles monthly since mid-2013, compiling more than 80 of them for LEI’s Lean Post. 

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