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Subject(s): Lean manufacturing | Organizational change | Leadership | Corporate culture | Teams in the workplace Summary: Lean must be viewed as a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. Each of these necessary components affects the effectiveness of the othe

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