{"id":1729,"date":"2011-04-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onefte.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:40:13","slug":"why-lean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onefte.com\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"why Lean"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-04-27-why-Lean.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-04-27-why-Lean.png\" alt=\"why Lean\" class=\"wp-image-1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-04-27-why-Lean.png 487w, https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-04-27-why-Lean-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">original publish date: 27th April, 2011<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">decades on \u2026<\/h2><p class=\"onefte-placeholder wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Commentary coming soon.<\/em><\/p><details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>transcript<\/summary><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FTE #1: The idea is, all beginning spending that your doesn&#x27;t directly contribute 10 customer value is waste and should lean be eliminated, journey of course, the exception being money spent on people who point out waste, they are really great value,<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caption: Aia aiaTeatatai\u00ae A Lean career is a worthwhile one, once you work through the conflict.<\/p><\/details>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>original publish date: 27th April, 2011 decades on \u2026 Commentary coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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