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

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The book opens up the lean discussion into how to truly uncover the latent potential of the wonderful people in your team. 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. Based on their extensive consulting experience, the authors present a simple seven-step road map for creating a culture of belief. Instead, Paul tries to show in this book how Lean is supposed to be taken: as a life tool and a life way of thinking, not just a work tool meant to increase profit. He catapulted into the business world when his knack for problem-solving led to an invention and eventually to his own manufacturing business.

Traditional Eastern wisdom and real-life business experience come together in this brief and practical guide, which offers a step-by-step plan that will help readers adopt a more successful way of working and living.For example, when I have to leave the house for the office, I HATE making more than one trip to the car. 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. However, when Paul teaches people about waste he doesn’t immediately approach it from the list of eight terms.

In my opinion, that is the significant contribution this book makes to the broader base of knowledge. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. If you're looking for a simple introduction that will be easy to give to entry level staff, this is a good resource.As a newly promoted Operations Director with a huge hit list of issues, and fires that need to be extinguished, this book confirmed I need to continue to empower the team to charge forward and fix what they see needs fixing. Every day at FastCap begins with an hour-long 3S period to improve their workplace and “fix what bugs them. I've always intuitively been attracted to lean work, preferring to not waste time or motion ever under any circumstances. Lean thinking has propelled my business from a small operation in my garage into an international, multi-million dollar enterprise.

Lean Life applies the key "lean" business elements I discuss in 2 Second Lean to our personal lives and relationships. I'm a LEAN/Six Sigma green belt and I had a pretty good understanding of the basics prior to this, but I cued this up on a four hour drive from Houston to Dallas and back and listened straight through to the end. An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. The chapters of Akers' book are brief, written in layman's terms, include color photos, sum everything up at the end, and are actually pretty entertaining. The company utterly rejects the idea that employees are simply functions to be moved around, "managed" with carrots and sticks, or discarded at will.By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as "Scrum", Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1200 percent. Paul is an instrument-rated pilot with over 2,000 hours of flight time, which includes 3 North Atlantic crossings in a single-engine plane. Save time, train on-demand, and engage every employee in simple kaizen in the spirit of 2 second lean. Through photos of Paul’s Lean journey, we come to know the person, the process of being Lean, and the principles that change everything.