TL;DR: Red metrics aren’t always bad–or even meaningful. Fear-based reactions to red drive blame and wasted effort. Lean leaders learn to distinguish signal from noise using better metrics, better thinking, and a deeper understanding of variation. Red is a color that grabs attention–and in many workplaces, it sparks fear. It’s the color of missed targets, late projects, and angry charts in management reviews. But what if we’ve been thinking about “red” all wrong? For decades, … Continue reading Why Red Isn’t Always Bad (or Useful): Rethinking Metrics, Mindsets, and Improvement