Tips for Lean Managers

The 20 Words Most Often Spoken in a Lean Organization

Avatar photo By Jon Miller Published on August 19th, 2015

  1. Customer
  2. Value
  3. Problem
  4. Why
  5. Standard
  6. Process
  7. See
  8. Cause
  9. Team
  10. How
  11. Experiment
  12. When
  13. Data
  14. Check
  15. Result
  16. Learn
  17. Better
  18. Sustainable
  19. Purpose
  20. Thanks
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Jon Miller

Jon has dedicated his 25+ year career to the field of kaizen, continuous improvement, and lean management. Jon spent the first eighteen years of his life in Japan, then graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s in linguistics.

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