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The art of doing more by aggressively deleting almost everything else.
means To tilt or rest at an angle, to depend on something for support, or — in business — to be stripped down to only the essentials with minimal waste.
from From Old English 'hleonian,' meaning to recline or rest at a slant — a cousin of words across the Germanic family for tilting and bending, and possibly distantly related to Latin 'clinare,' to lean. The 'thin, lacking fat' sense comes from a separate Old English word, 'hlǣne,' and the two streams have flowed together so completely that modern 'lean' carries both: the body that tilts and the body without spare flesh. The manufacturing meaning is a 20th-century borrowing of that second sense — 'no excess fat on the system.'
- toyota origin
- Born on Toyota factory floors fighting waste
- seven wastes
- Classic system names seven distinct kinds of waste
- silicon valley
- Lean Startup turned it into building doctrine
- leaning tower
- Pisa leans because foundation sat on soft soil
- language root
- Old English hleonian, meaning to bend or recline
toyota production system — manufacturing methodology that eliminated waste at toyota factories starting in the 1950s
five s methodology — workplace organization system (sort, set, shine, standardize, sustain) used in lean manufacturing
eric ries lean startup — 2011 book applying lean principles to startups and product development