Here’s yet another article with the lazy “Lean and Mean” cliche’ in the headline: “Make Your Physician Practice a Lean, Mean Healing Machine.” Real Lean isn’t mean toward patients or staff or physicians. It’s a shame the headline had to…
Hospital management to become lean and mean Here’s an article from a Thailand newspaper, where the “Lean and Mean” bug has also bit editors there (and I won’t repeat my ranting about that, though you can click here for some…
Leaner and meaner – the way forward? Ah, the old easy “leaner and meaner” cliche’. Such an easy fallback for editors who aren’t feeling very creative. We know here that real Lean isn’t mean, at all. Lean respects the employees,…
Health Care: Loving Lean — Seattle Business Monthly It’s so nice to see a Lean overview article, yet alone Lean healthcare, that doesn’t use the “Lean and Mean” cliche in the headline. This is a story from Seattle that discusses…
Leaner, but Not Meaner | workforce.com It’s always nice to see a headline NOT using the cute (but usually inaccurate) “lean and mean” construct. It’s especially nice to see it in the context of a smaller hospital, Meadows Regional Medical…
For a lean, mean machine Here’s another journalistically-lazy reference to “lean and mean,” this time in an announcement for an Intro to Lean seminar in Florida. Ugh. Lean is not “mean.” Lean calls for respect for employees and not laying…
Lean and mean manufacturing – 9/26/2006 – Modern Materials Handling When I see “mean” in a headline, it’s strange… I would expect that to be negative article, but this article is positive and pretty accurate. “Most people think of lean…
TIME.com: Lean and Mean — Jul 10, 2006 — Page 1 So the article isn’t as bad as I thought given the headline. A better headline for my posting here would have been: “Lean and Mean” Army? Lean, But Not…
TIME.com: Lean and Mean — Jul 10, 2006 — Page 1 I haven’t had time to read this yet, but I’ll invite your comments. I’ll add comments when I have a chance to read and digest this. My first instinct…
