It just gets too easy to throw money at problems and yet we see time and time again that money often creates problems rather than solving them.

In wonderful 2 Second Lean fashion, Paul makes 5S simple by reducing it to just three: sort, sweep, and standardize. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. I will say, the number of mini photos on each page started to become distracting as it felt more if a way to take up space (ie. Not being an MBA or a beginner in Product Management in manufacturing the first half of the book just sounded like a hype infomercial.

The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success. I am eager to see how the training translates this very manufacturing-oriented concept into something that makes sense in my human services organization. Once you have experienced the vast benefits of Lean, you will crave it, want it, and do anything to get it.

FastCap launches approximately 20-30 innovative products per year and has won business of the year in 1999 and 2010.Title is for identification purposes only and does not imply an endorsement by the Attorney General’s Office or the State of Washington. No flow charts or graphs – just the real life journey of one company and the astounding results Lean thinking can produce. Second Lean is a Lean Leadership and Culture story that will help you DO good, FEEL good, and RAISE THE TIDE for your whole organization. Through a series of twists and turns, he discovered Lean and the Toyota Production System (TPS) which was instrumental in propelling FastCap as an example of Lean manufacturing and culture, followed by thousands of companies around the world.

In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Sheridan also shows how to run smarter meetings and build cultural training into your hiring process.I also liked his positive, can-do attitude, and that he references his own business and how they are approaching Business Improvement on a small, daily basis. When people see how much your area has improved, how much easier your work is, how much more they can depend on you, how consistent you are and how the quality of your product improves, they will want to know how you are doing it. Dozens of people who have attended seminars of mine have come up to remind me, sometimes 15 or 20 years later, of “the two-cent candy story,” and to tell me how it had a sizable impact on how they did business. There are countless leadership books, but how many will actually help a Taco Bell shift manager, a Fortune 500 CEO, a new entrepreneur, or anyone in between?

With the strategies outlined in this book, you'll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency. Lean Life applies the key "lean" business elements I discuss in 2 Second Lean to our personal lives and relationships. The whole idea of lean fails and has zero power to transform an organization when the front line operator is denied empowerment. The author lays out a simple plan to identify and eliminate waste (could be an unneeded process or physical waste, there are 8 categories) and thereby increase productivity and grow a thriving company.I plan on reading his book and will incorporate the idea of looking for waste and eliminating it not only at work but at home.