Author

Books by Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé

Michael Ballé is a French organizational theorist and executive coach who has spent decades applying lean management principles in European industry. He is a co-founder of the Institut Lean France and has written extensively on lean leadership in management journals. Freddy Ballé, his father, worked as a senior executive with Toyota and other manufacturers and is one of the practitioners who introduced lean methods to European industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Together they also wrote The Gold Mine, a prequel novel set in the same lean coaching universe. Their work is notable for emphasizing the human and management-development dimensions of lean rather than its technical tools.