http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/10/852/ The magazine for the project age Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:08:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/10/852/#comment-20701 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:50:52 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/10/852/#comment-20701 To continue the skydiving metaphor, when you make that leap out of the plane, you have complete faith that the parachute will open. Many lean transformations never get off the ground because management wants to "stick their foot in the water" by doing small pilot tests of this lean tool or another. Because lean is a system approach this never works. As in skydiving, you can't just take small incremental steps, you have to make a leap of faith. In my mind, a company that is serious about transforming themselves needs to do the same. They need to make the leap and never look back. Yes, it is scarey and requires courage and discipline and is not easy. To continue the skydiving metaphor, when you make that leap out of the plane, you have complete faith that the parachute will open. Many lean transformations never get off the ground because management wants to “stick their foot in the water” by doing small pilot tests of this lean tool or another. Because lean is a system approach this never works. As in skydiving, you can’t just take small incremental steps, you have to make a leap of faith. In my mind, a company that is serious about transforming themselves needs to do the same. They need to make the leap and never look back. Yes, it is scarey and requires courage and discipline and is not easy.

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