Top 10 Lean Quotes of 2019

Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on this journey because without learning we cannot improve.

10. "The Secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda." — John Maxwell

"The secret of your organization success is determined by your team daily management." — Lean Institute Asia

9. "People aren’t your problem. Your problem is that your work systems and processes don’t allow people to shine." — Karen Martin

8. "…there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." — Morpheus

7. "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." — Karim Seddiki

6. "A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see." — Leroy Eimes

5. "The essence of management is not techniques and procedures. The essence of management is to make knowledge productive." — Peter Drucker

4. "Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want." — Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator

3. "Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important." — Noreena Hertz

2. "You manage things; you lead people." — Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

1. "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." — Jim Rohn

These are the top 10 quotes on A Lean Journey website in 2019.