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Lawrence M. Miller is the author of eight books on management and leadership and consultant to major corporations on creating high performing cultures. Lawrence M. Miller was born in New York City, and grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where he attended high school, and was distinguished by graduating 83rd out of a class of 84. Miller then joined the Army, serving in Army Intelligence in Germany and Vietnam. On return he attended and graduated from Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. ==Career== He began his work in youth prisons after recognizing that the learning system in the organization had exactly the opposite of its intended effect – increasing, rather than decreasing, dysfunctional behavior. For four years he worked to redesign the prison system by establishing the first free economy behind prison walls, where each inmate had to pay rent, maintain a checking account, and pay for everything he desired. This was one of the first applications of behavior analysis in the correctional setting. He has been consulting, writing and speaking about business organization and culture since 1973. He began his business consulting after being recruited to join Fran Tarkenton's company, Behavioral Systems, Inc., then headed by psychologist Aubrey Daniels. When Daniels parted ways with Tarkenton, Miller was named President of Behavioral Systems, Inc. In 1983 with the publication of American Spirit, he formed his own firm, the Miller Howard Consulting Group in 1983. In 1998 he sold his firm to Towers Perrin, an international human resource consulting firm and became a Principal of that firm. In 1999 he left that firm to focus on his interest in serving non-profit organizations and solo consulting projects. He and his firm were one of the early proponents of team-based management and worked with many clients to implement Team Management from the senior executive team to include every level and every employee in the organization. The Team Management process created a company of business managers, with every employee focused on continuous improvement of business performance. Miller merged this methodology with his knowledge of Lean management (Toyota Production System) to provide his clients with an integrated approach to creating lean culture. In addition to directing the overall change process, Miller personally coached the senior management team of many of his clients. The implementation of Team Management led to the realization that the whole system of the organization needed to be redesigned to create alignment so all systems, structure, skills, style and symbols support the same goals and culture. From this realization he developed the process of Whole System Architecture that is a high involvement method of rethinking all of the systems, structures and culture of the organization. Among his consulting clients have been 3M, Corning, Shell Oil Company, Amoco and Texaco, Shell Chemicals, Air Canada and Varig Airlines, Eastman Chemicals, Xerox, Harris Corporation, McDonald's and Chick-Fil-A, Merck and Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, United Technologies, Metropolitan Life and Landmark Communications. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawrence M. Miller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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