True False Q# LEAN AND PERFORMANCE: IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE 1. Lean emphasizes operational improvements through waste identification, reduction, and elimination, but a company with the ability to emphasize and balance both internal and external foci could be expected to realize improved operational results over a company emphasizing internal operational improvements over customer needs. 2. To a large extent, due to lean's ontological makeup, operational improvements from lean should be expected to be independent of the company's primary operating emphasis, e.g., control and stability, adaptability and flexibility, etc