Quotes About Lean

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, Crown Business, September 12, 2011 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbably, Second Edition, by Nassim Nicolas Taleb, Random House, May 11, 2010 Footnotes 1 The Black Swan, Second Edition, by Nassim Nicolas Taleb, Random House, May 11, 2010

But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?

Lizzie leaned against him, loving the lean strength of his body and the Georgia drawl he'd never managed to get rid of, though he complained that there was nothing more out of place than a southern man living in L.A. "I dreamed about it for years after," she admitted

attempting to maximize utilization is a self-defeating process. Optimal utilization can be achieved only by concentrating on flow.

we shouldn't add features until they are needed. Forget just in case; develop just in time.

Shook and Verble, Managing to Learn.

Our lean beginnings created the strategic management principles that define our culture: Less is more. Information is better than inventory. Ingenuity is better than investment. Execution is everything. No excuses.

America had yet seen—that is, until the public caught on and the lean, ammonia-processed beef came to be known as "pink slime.

Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

Visión de Toyota para sus operaciones de producción Tal como se representa en la figura 3.5, Toyota ha perseguido durante varias décadas una visión a largo plazo de sus operaciones de producción que consta de:7 •Cero defectos. •Cien por cien de valor añadido. •Flujo de una sola pieza, en orden, a petición. •Seguridad para las personas. Figura 3.5. Visión de Toyota de las operaciones de producción.

Una pregunta elegante al respecto que aprendí de Toyota es: «¿Qué impide a los operarios trabajar de acuerdo con el estándar?» Yo le animo a utilizar esta pregunta cuando esté procurando alcanzar un estado objetivo, porque dicha pregunta modifica su forma de pensar y cambia el lugar donde dirige su mirada cuando surge un problema. Sea duro con el proceso, pero blando con los operarios TOYOTA

It is the striving for target conditions via the routine of the improvement kata that characterizes what we have been calling "lean manufacturing.

Guy was crazy tall, lean, and scruffy. With just his sandals and a richly colored pair of baggies on, he left little to the imagination. Needless to say,

Dr. Shingo defines process as "a flow by which an object is transformed from raw material into finished product," as opposed to operations which is "the flow of tasks performed by human workers on products," the focus needs to be on improving processes and not operations

Getting to the root cause to eliminate problems and defects is close to the heart of lean manufacturing.  Just solving a problem to allow it to occur again is such a waste of human ingenuity.  Dr. Shingo would want us to spend a little more time up front, to investigate causes a little deeper to insure that the same problem would never happen again.

Lowering the river of inventory is the heart of lean manufacturing.  Keep this centered in your mind and practice it.  People have a tendency to complicate things.  It is only because they really don't fully understand and appreciate the simplicity and power of reducing inventory.

Lean starts with customer service and ends with customer service.  You answer the following question, "How can I please my customers by delivering to them exactly what they want, exactly when they want it, in the right quantity and in the right quality at the lowest possible cost?

Don't tell them how to do it!  Just teach them the principles of Lean, challenge them, and let them do it."   John Miller – Gemba Research

The Harada Method is the Human Side of Lean.

rnest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian word that meant "walled garden." I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew where the walls were and tended them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

Explaining to people how lean transformations at a factory correspond to what happens to our cost of goods sold and our earnings and our stock price, that's kind of the change in thinking you want to get people bought into.

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.