it doesn't take long to stay an hour.
We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.
There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist.
Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?
One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.