2 Second Lean (How to Grow People and Build a Fun Lean Culture at Work & at Home, 3rd Edition)

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Paul personally visited the City of Ferndale and spent time with employees teaching the concepts of Lean. One of the better operational books on small run (lean) manufacturing, as it’s actually applicable in most places.

He has spoken to the Israeli Defense Forces, numerous large Construction companies, many Educational Institutions and his passion is to spread the lean message around the world. The author also started off by going off script (and acknowledging that he was doing so) and the audiobook content doesn’t directly line up with the printed/ pdf version. It's rarely a huge or drastic change, but baby steps in an endless drive to continuously improve everything every day.In real life I'd probably be annoyed by these attitudes, but as a piece of media it was refreshingly genuine and optimistic. Paul has thousands of followers of his weekly webcast, “The American Innovator” where he teaches about the power of innovation and lean thinking. He struggles with all of the common difficulties in construction - lack of communication, coordination issues, and other kinds of wasteful occurrences that rob his project of time and money, while leaving him and his team frustrated and overworked. Everybody tells you how to implement Lean… but Paul reveals the values that make Lean grow from within your people.

Today, with stiff competition from the networked global economy, delivering extraordinary results is more important than ever. If you just make a small improvement, you'll learn so much that the next improvement will be that much better. For people that are trying to learn abour Lean Methodologies, Paul Akers shows a very humble, fun and exciting perspective about it. government agencies teaching Lean thinking and helping them create a Lean culture in government organizations throughout the country and around the world.Learn how to operate with the maximum efficiency while creating a productive and positive environment in all that you do. Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade brings lean back to its original simplicity by showing how lean is alive in a first-grade classroom. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

It’s not necessary to add “sustain” to 3S at a 2 Second Lean company, because sustainment is built into the very frabric of the lean operating system. Paul worked in Pasadena restoring some of the most prestigious historical homes and became part of an exclusive group of craftsmen that built the home for the editor of Architectural Digest.

FastCap was started in Paul’s garage in 1997 when he simply “fixed what bugged him” and developed his first product: the Fastcap Cover Cap. This book is rather small, with around 150 pages with several images to go along with it, so it is very fast and easy to read the book entirely.