Lean Management Quotes

Major reforms include optimisation of the Signals establishments, restructuring of repair echelons, redeployment of ordnance echelons, better utilisation of supply and transport echelons, besides closure of military farms, and Army postal establishments in peace locations.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.

Now we teach our leaders that it's your job to put in the systems that enable your people to run your experiments fast and cheap and to keep making them faster and cheaper. Yield as many of your decisions off to the experiment as possible.