lean

Every time Lean comes up in a conversation with a business owner or CFO, I hear some version of the same question:

“We rolled out Lean… why didn’t it last?”

After our latest Ask the CFO session with Mike Craig and William Craig from GKW Business Solutions, I think the answer is clearer than ever. Lean doesn’t fail because people don’t understand the tools. It fails because leadership doesn’t change the behaviors that make those tools meaningful.

Mike spent years in manufacturing finance befor…