The lean path

I think there is very often a misunderstanding with lean approach to excelence.
I we have discussed before, to detect and do away with waste is only the warm-up to act lean, to add-value.
So, although is easy to do, we have to give away elimination of waste because there is a point where we don't carry on adding value while eliminate waste. Unlike that, at these point, we remove the sources of waste yielding value.

This way we become proactive rather than only re-active.

From other perspective, at that point we start thrive, innovate, excel, and lead ...we must reach beyond effectiveness toward greatness.

And this behavior is truly lean, while difficult, demanding and uncertain.
And behaving that way we carry on the lean path.

Remaining question is What's the paradigm of the lean transformation?
Because it is not to set up anorexic organizations.

Neither is to manage through a cluster of management techniques...
What is the end?
Where does the path lead us?

The never ending journey.
This mi idea: There is two moments in the lean implementation:
The first step from the scratch to the lean status. At the end, organizations are approved to entry to the playing field, this is it: they become World Class.
And the second step is the usual final step in every lean tranformation: estandarize, maintain and sustain. The great process, the great success.

In my opinion, a lot of organizations are climbing the first rung of the ladder that leads to excelence... but many of them will be stuck to this task forever. And  only a hanful of them will get the Paradise: the place in wich existence is positive, harmonious and eternal. In paradise there is only peace, prosperity and happiness. At Toyota's Side.