The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions

3. Delighted Customers

The Westerner and the Japanese mean something different when they talk of “making a decision.” With us in the West, all the emphasis is on the answer to the question. . . . To the Japanese, however, the important element in decision-making is defining the question.¹

1. Peter F. Drucker, “What We Can Learn from Japanese Management,” Harvard Business Review, March–April 1971. Emphasis added. Used with permission.

—Peter Drucker

Ask the Right Questions

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