We have often discussed the question of whether the ability to successfully implement a successful lean initiative is something like being able to dunk a basketball or bench press 300 pounds: One can either do it, or one can’t.

Just as those two abilities depend, at least in part, on one’s DNA, maybe the ability to implement lean does so as well. And just as there are right-brained and left-brained people, are there some managers who can innately understand and adopt lean practices, while others struggle with the concepts and need for it?

https://www.industryweek.com/operations/continuous-improvement/article/21281050/some-managers-just-cant-get-lean

industryweek.com

Some Managers Just Can’t Get Lean

Though professing a commitment to continuous improvement, they never really grasp what it’s all about.