Lean Thoughts

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know.
MARK TWAIN, LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

To know and not to do is not yet to know.
ZEN SAYING

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
ARISTOTLE

If the learner hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught.
COMMON AND FREQUENT EXPRESSION AT TOYOTA

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change.
And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

PETER DRUCKER

Plans are things that change.
FUJI CHO, CHAIRMAN TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION

Do or do not. There is no try.
YODA

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Be hard on the process, but soft on the operators.
TOYOTA

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEADE, ANTHROPOLOGIST

 
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