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A glowing, colorful lightbulb symbolizing creativity with swirling, vibrant energy inside it, physically handcuffed to a rigid metal clipboard labeled “BEST PRACTICE.” The clipboard is grey, industrial, and dull. Chains restrain the bulb’s movement as it pulses with color, trying to break free.

A glowing, colorful lightbulb symbolizing creativity with swirling, vibrant energy inside it, physically handcuffed to a rigid metal clipboard labeled “BEST PRACTICE.” The clipboard is grey, industrial, and dull. Chains restrain the bulb’s movement as it pulses with color, trying to break free.

Down With (Lean) Standard Work!

Because somewhere along the way, is it possible that standard work might be handcuffed to or confused with the seductive but dangerous concept of best practice? And if that is the case, this coupling has quietly and sometimes catastrophically dulled the very creativity that Lean was meant to inspire and unleash.

Sol and Rod Morgan

4 min read

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