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Leading Lean by Living Lean
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Leading Lean by Living Lean

by Philip Holt
July 2022
Beginner
176 pages
3h 43m
English
Productivity Press
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Chapter 12Epilogue

DOI: 10.4324/9781003251385-16

The intention of this final chapter is to use a LinkedIn article1 that I wrote in 2017 to emphasise the change in thinking that Living Lean requires. It confronts the subject of being too busy and proposes that it may well be that, if you are, you might not be doing it right…

If you’re too busy, you’re not doing it right

Many years ago I played squash for the first time. I was new to the company and town and was befriended by a colleague, Steve, who suggested that we play a game of squash at the local sports centre. What I didn’t know at the time of accepting his offer was that he once played squash for Wales and that his son was currently Wales’ number two player and so he possessed quite a ...

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