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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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302 |

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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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314 |

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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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314 |

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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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315 |

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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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321 |

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Lean Thinking:
Most managers accept the intellectual proposition that improvement is never finished.
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323 |

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Lean Thinking:
It really is possible to continue improvements indefinitely for the same value stream.
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326 |

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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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326 |

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Lean Thinking:
A value creation system must be flexible and responsive because forecasts are always wrong.
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326 |

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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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336 |