The Lean Machine

CHAPTER 4

The PDL²T

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote

The Harley-Davidson conference center is located on the sixth floor of an old warehouse across the street from the Juneau Avenue headquarters. At one time it housed parts and accessories when the headquarters was still a factory. The building was converted from warehouse space to office and meeting space in the late 1990s but kept the look and feel of the 1920s industrial-era warehouse it had once been. The original red brick and glass block were used to portion ...