Skip to Main Content
The Lean Machine
book

The Lean Machine

by Dantar P. OOSTERWAL
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 42m
English
AMACOM
Content preview from The Lean Machine

CHAPTER 1

image

Working Hard

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris . . . [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

Orville Wright

I returned to my office after lunch and noticed the message light on my phone was on. No surprise—it seemed to always take at least an hour in the morning and another hour after lunch to get through all of my messages. I picked up the receiver, punched in the password to my voicemail and settled in for what was sure to be a long review of messages. The first message was from Gene, my manager: “Guys, listen to the attached message from the boss.” Gene was passing ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay, First Edition

The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay, First Edition

Zuzana Šochová
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780814413784