{"id":445,"date":"2011-03-01T22:07:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2011-03-01T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:14:19","slug":"lean-id-rather-be-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Lean? I’d rather be Healthy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a friend the other day about Lean and Six Sigma and all that – and I felt I did not know the word “lean” – so I looked it up on synonym.com<\/a> and this is what I found for the adjective:<\/p>\n

Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of adj lean<\/span><\/div>\n
4 senses of lean<\/span><\/p>\n
Sense 1:<\/span><\/div>\n

thin (vs. fat), lean
\nanorexic, anorecticbony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasteddeep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyedgangling, gangly, lankylank, spindlyrawbonedreedy, reedliketwiggy, twiglikescarecrowishscraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedyshriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizenedslender, slight, slim, svelteslender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waistedspare, trimspindle-legged, spindle-shankedstringy, wirywisplike, wispy<\/span><\/p>\n

Also See: ectomorphic; thin<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Sense 2:<\/span><\/div>\n

lean (vs. rich)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sense 3:<\/span><\/div>\n

lean, skimpy
\ninsufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
Sense 4:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
lean
\nunprofitable (vs. profitable)<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
And this got me thinking….How is it that we ascribe so many negative connotations to a single idea – anorexic, anorecticbony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasteddeep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyedgangling, gangly, unprofitable<\/span>……etc. etc.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Isn’t it time for a new word to describe what is, essentially, keeping an organisation healthy?\u00a0 All better ideas for words and terms gratefully received!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a friend the other day about Lean and Six Sigma and all that – and I felt I did not know the word “lean” – so I looked it up on synonym.com and this is what I found for the adjective: Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of adj lean 4 … <\/p>\n

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