Category Lean Memes

Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement memes, originally published at LeanMemes.com from 2012 onward.

Bad Advice

Meme with a smiling golden retriever puppy on a rainbow sunburst background, captioned "REDUCE YOUR INVENTORY" and "BURN DOWN YOUR WAREHOUSE"

By Ryan Text: Reduce your inventory, burn down your warehouse See more in the Best of Lean Memes collection.

You have been warned…

Meme with a child in the foreground and a house engulfed in flames behind, captioned "THEY NEGLECTED RESPECT FOR PEOPLE" and "I NEGLECTED TO TURN OFF THE GAS"

By Shmuel (Sam) Korb skorb@leanisrael.co.il Text: They neglected respect for people, I neglected to turn off the gas See more in the Best of Lean Memes collection.

“Sticky”

Meme with pink and green starburst background showing a gymnast in a gray jacket looking unimpressed, captioned NASA cleared you of all wrongdoing? McKAYLA is not impressed

By Shmuel (Sam) Korb skorb@leanisrael.co.il Text: NASA cleared you of all wrongdoing? McKayla is not impressed See more in the Best of Lean Memes collection.

Busted?

Meme reading "MYTH THAT LEAN IS ONLY COST REDUCTION?" above two men with arms crossed on a rooftop, captioned "BUSTED."

By Chad Walters @LeanBlitz Text: Myth that Lean is only cost reduction? Busted. See more in the Best of Lean Memes collection.

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