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What It Means to Have
aLeanCulture
The leadership has to get involved; you can’t do this from the front ofce. You have to be there in
jeans and work boots, moving the machines yourself.
—Joe McNamara
President at McNamara Manufacturing Holdings Dba Ttarp Co.
ORGANIZATIONAL DISSEMINATION OF LEAN
By now you have probably gained a better understanding of what it means to be Lean, the concepts,
philosophies, and benets an organization can achieve if Lean is adopted and deployed throughout
the organization. In order to disseminate Lean across an organization, a cultural transformation
must occur. In order to create a Lean culture, one must underst ...