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

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Paul is passionate about health and completed 2 Ironman competitions (Lake Placid, NY, and Vichy, France).

No flow charts or graphs - just the real life journey of one company and the astounding results Lean thinking can produce. I know he did 2 second lean, morning huddle, and empowerment and training but what were more stories around this and his day to day?I stumbled across a video of Paul Akers showing a youtube channel around his amazing factory and really enjoyed Pauls energy and humour so i thought id download some of his audio books. He makes everything about waste–muda (and the 8 wastes), muri, and mura–as simple as “fix what bugs you. Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota.

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. 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. He understood that if you made things simple, there was a much greater chance of people understanding and implementing the ideas. 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. And “straighten” is also not necessary to require in the daily 3S process because of the next element of this lean operating system: teaching everyone to see waste.In this way the entire community benefits and the company itself learns to take pride in what they’ve accomplished. Lean has been misunderstood to be the methodology of taking away jobs, making things sterile with little or no creativity. And for the small- to mid-sized organization with a DIY (do-it-yourself) attitude, we think 2 Second Lean is wickedly awesome. It's rarely a huge or drastic change, but baby steps in an endless drive to continuously improve everything every day. 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.