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The one thing you know about lean is probably wrong
- mindcrime 13y agoNo longer a practice confined to early stage startups, lean is infiltrating companies from large corporates to small one-person non-profits. It doesn't necessarily take away from the overall point of the article, but FWIW, this is backwards. "Lean" was a "thing" in big companies long before it was ever used in the context of "lean startup". Lean entails very specific things, and is largely rooted in an approach to manufacturing management that was developed by Japanese companies like Toyota.[1][2] The book that broke the term "lean" into the mainstream in the US and other parts of the world was The Machine That Changed The World[3], which was published in 1991. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_production http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_production [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_World_%28book%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_Wo...