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What Is Lean: A Beginner's Guide

After World War II, Japan was broke. Factories were damaged. Resources were scarce. Toyota could not compete with American car makers by copying mass production. They could not afford huge inventories, rework, or hidden defects. An engineer named Taiichi Ohno looked at this reality and reached a simple conclusion: Waste was the enemy. Instead of producing in large batches, Toyota built only what the customer actually needed. Instead of fixing problems at the end, they stopped work the moment a defect appeared. Instead of managers designing the process, the people doing the work improved it every day. This became the Toyota Production System, later known as Lean. Lean is not about cutting costs. It is about flow. Speed. Respect for human effort. In this video, I explain Lean through its five core principles: Define value from the customer’s perspective Map the value stream and expose waste Create continuous flow Establish pull instead of push Pursue continuous improvement (Kaizen) Lean teaches a simple but uncomfortable truth: Most organizations are not slow because people are lazy. They are slow because the system is full of waste. Stop managing people. Start managing the flow.