{"id":394,"date":"2012-12-25T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:05:07","slug":"the-art-subtraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/the-art-subtraction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Subtraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Matthew May&#8217;s new book, <em>The Laws of Subtraction (McGraw-Hill 2013)<\/em>, he outlines some key concepts refined from his years with Toyota:<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of every difficult decision lie three tough choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What to pursue versus what to ignore.<\/li>\n<li>What to leave in versus what to leave out.<\/li>\n<li>What to do versus what to don\u2019t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The key is to remove the stupid stuff: anything obviously excessive, confusing, wasteful, unnatural, hazardous, hard to use or ugly. This is the art of subtraction.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that the core of Lean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Matthew May&rsquo;s new book, The Laws of Subtraction (McGraw-Hill 2013), he outlines some key concepts refined from his years with Toyota: At the heart of every difficult decision lie three tough choices: What to pursue versus what to ignore. What to leave in versus what to leave out. What to do versus what to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lean","category-manufacturing","category-service","tag-lean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}