Mr. Bloomberg, known for running a lean corporation, has been full of promises to restructure and modernize the city's business.
In the Senate, Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, recently urged a gathering of Republican senators to lean on corporations and business lobbyists for more donations.
If the Republicans really want to lower the government's expenses, they should start with helping to eradicate inequality, lean on corporations to pay better wages, close wasteful tax loopholes that benefit only the rich but do little to spur spending or the economy, and stop fixating on budget battles with Democrats.
Gone are the usual competitive restraints that keep capitalist corporations "lean and mean".
We can lean on multinational corporations all we want, they don't have the information or the power to ensure decent factories, and neither do we.
But now, as Mr. O'Reilly, 53, takes the helm at the combined concern, to be called Chevron Texaco, some ask if an affable, relatively young executive who introduces himself as Dave can forge a corporation lean and mean enough to thrive.
As state tax revenue continues to drop, even below Gov. James E. McGreevey's pessimistic projections, his administration today spelled out the details of a tax plan that would lean heavily on large corporations to close the budget gap.
Today, whether you call it growth hacking or business intelligence, successful large corporations and lean young startups have become fanatical about measuring their customers.
The blatant violation of the Olympic Charter would have been reason enough for these corporations to lean on Putin to put the breaks on the bill, lest they pull their sponsorship.
Despite the methodology's name, in the long term some of its biggest payoffs may be gained by the large companies that embrace it, something that Blank discovered last year when he was asked by Harvard Business Review to write about how the lean startup would impact corporations.
