Following up on yesterday's found parody of the show The Office… As if we needed any proof that Dwight K. Schrute is NOT a “Lean Thinker,” check out this short video clip I saw the other night:
Of course, in the Lean mindset, we don't attack people as being “waste.” Waste is embedded in processes and systems. Waste interferes with people being able to do good work.
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Waste in the first case is always embedded in thinking and mental models! Its appearance in processes is only the tangible outcome.