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Yesterday\'s blog post was about a situation (with my podcast hosting service) that triggered memories of my time at General Motors in 1995. Today\'s post is about a recent article on Boeing that definitely caused me to think of that broken, dysfunctional \\u201cpre-Lean\\u201d culture that I suffered through (and learned from) in my first year at GM.
\\nIn 1995, nobody claimed GM was Lean so the expectations were low. They were who they were and my new plant manager in 1996 started to change things. Boeing is a company that has been pointed at as a great example of Lean Manufacturing, so it\'s troubling to read reports that suggest otherwise.
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