I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
The market is efficient enough that it is very hard to beat consistently.
Create continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface.
Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.
An hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system.
Lean production is lean because it uses less of everything compared with mass production — half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools.
The truly lean plant has two key organizational features: it transfers the maximum number of tasks and responsibilities to those workers actually adding value to the car on the line.
Muda is specifically any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value.
Most activities that we think of as value-creating are actually muda, and most of the rest are necessary to support the value-creating steps.
Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way.
If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know. They'll find a way to get it done. The less time they have, the less time they waste.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Efficiency remains important, but the ability to adapt to complexity and changing circumstances is the prime directive.
