Book Titles

Lean Thinking
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

By Daniel Jones, James Womack

Year Published: 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0743249270
Categories: Lean, Value, Waste

50 Quotes Found

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Lean Thinking:

…you usually don’t need to play brilliant hunches or score dramatic product breakthroughs to succeed.

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Lean Thinking:

Revolutionaries are often poor managers of the new order once it is put in place.

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Lean Thinking:

No organization has ever undergone dramatic and comprehensive change without someone somewhere, softly or in a loud voice, taking the lead.

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Lean Thinking:

For a crisis to be useful, leadership and knowledge must lead to decisive action on the tough issues of excess assets, wrong locations, and excess people.

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Lean Thinking:

…the value stream manager develops the vision for the product, determines the Current State of the value stream, and then envisions the Future State.

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Lean Thinking:

Most managers accept the intellectual proposition that improvement is never finished.

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Lean Thinking:

It really is possible to continue improvements indefinitely for the same value stream.

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Lean Thinking:

Old conflicts will always give way to new in any organization as long as it is growing or faces resource constraints.

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Lean Thinking:

A value creation system must be flexible and responsive because forecasts are always wrong.

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Lean Thinking:

…recessions are precious things because they shake conventional wisdom, even complacent lean wisdom, and motivate managers to make hard choices.

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