a good starting point; "Lean thinking" explains the five basic principles of lean production and provides lots of good examples including Tesco

if you are in the business of building people as well as buildings this is important; if you are not this is even more important.

Peter Scholtes explains a lot that is valuable to those interested in leading a lean transformation

This will help you understand what you need to do to run a Kaizen event and how to do

visual management is important in construction—the definition of visual management is visual signals that convey information without the need for interpretation - just like a traffic light.

I suggest reading this after May (#4). Like Construction the Toyota Product Development System is a project based approach and this introduces set-based design—useful for designers & others

A small and important book. Trust is vital in construction. Without it we have no relationships and we construct on the basis of relationships.

one of the leaders of the development of the TPS writes about his

A good introduction to logistics—the ideas need adpating to construction

Like construction, software development is a project based development process. There is much in here for designers and somethings for constructors

a supplement to item 2 on the list

challenges to more of the myths and lots more ideas for doing much better than "best efforts". Like Lean the Deming method bases decisions on good data

a useful comparison of Toyota & Scania