#time #waste The more people are together, the more time will their sheer interaction take, and the less time will be available to them for work, accomplishment, and results. Time wasting often results from overstaffing. Much more common is the workforce that is too big to be effective. The workforce that spends therefore an increasing amount of its time interacting rather than working. People have become an impediment to performance rather than the means thereto. In a lean organization, people have room to move without colliding with one another and can do their work without having to explain it all the time. [[Meetings are the exception rather than the rule]]