Overview
There is no more widely used cliche in modern business than "Lean and Mean." Companies use it to claim they are cost-conscious and disciplined, but in its over-use, the phrase also has come to justify a wide range of destructive behavior, from layoffs to cutting employee benefits. If anything, the Lean and Mean philosophy has grown even more popular over the years, but it has met its match in Anil Singhal. Singhal has not met a single business cliche he hasn't set out to explode. With Lean But Not Mean he has taken on the biggest cliche of them all, replacing it with a philosophy that is not only kinder but more successful. Singhal backs up his enlighted philosophy with the ultimate proof: his company, NetScout, which he co-founded, has grown to more than $1 billion in profitable annual sales under his Lean But Not Mean leadership.