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

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With the strategies outlined in this book, you'll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency. 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. So I thought this was a hokey self-help book for the manufacturing world and I understandably resisted reading it until I had to fill 20 hours in a car by myself and was left with little excuse.

The author spent more time hyping his own products/company and restating the title than he did making new revelations. 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. 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. In June 2011 Paul won the prestigious award of Business Executive of the year for Seattle Business Magazine. P. and managing officer of Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts - from simply performing their singular function to continuously improving in collaboration across the organization.You’ll discover the powerful improvement community that Paul Akers’ simplicity, humility and enthusiasm created. You can apply this book anywhere, but harried moms might be the first group I would recommend it to. 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.

Knowledgeable author, interesting way of writing, and then at the end you feel like you learned something.

Generosity is central to the 2 Second Lean wordview and philosophy and these organizations take the principle very seriously: giving is truly better than receiving.