As a leader in a Lean organization, there is a lot of pressure on you to hit your metrics. It can take a lot of moral fortitude to choose the harder right over the easier wrong.
While bosses control the lion's share of their relationships with employees, employees can behave in a way to modify their leader's behavior.
Overproduction and batching tend to create or hide other forms of waste. In this video, I discuss how a mistake was compounded by overproduction.
Lean works in small businesses, but takes some special effort. Learn more in this video.