Episode summary
Designed lean is not survival mode.
Kim Lewis Howard and Hal Howard draw the line between reactive lean and designed lean. The episode explains what a business looks like when AI carries system work and people carry judgment work.
Operators learn four characteristics of a designed-lean business: revenue per person, delivery speed, system-level decisions, and founder time spent on judgment. The episode also introduces the four-layer Lean Business Blueprint: Client-Facing, System, Human, and Growth.