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

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He catapulted into the business world when his knack for problem solving led to an invention and eventually to his own manufacturing business that started in his garage. In 2015, he wrote his 2nd book, Lean Health, in 2016, he wrote Lean Travel and in 2019, he wrote Lean Life and Banish Sloppiness. He has never had to lay off an employee, nor cut one salary and currently offers among the highest entry level pay in the region.

If you think of Lean as something meant to merely increase profit in your workplace, you will fail to implement Lean.Paul is passionate about health and completed 2 Ironman competitions (Lake Placid, NY, and Vichy, France). Nine years ago, best-selling author and business consultant Mark Sanborn introduced the world to Fred, his postman, who delivered extraordinary service in simple but remarkable ways.

I found his speaking energy in the audio book to be a bit distracting as he always has a "selling" tone. Indeed, it’s the things that bug us every day that are actually the eight wastes of lean in disguise. He understood that if you made things simple, there was a much greater chance of people understanding and implementing the ideas.

Bob put Paul to work the day he graduated from high school and mentored him, making a lasting impression as Paul watched how Bob – a true American innovator – changed the guitar industry right in front of Paul’s eyes. It's rarely a huge or drastic change, but baby steps in an endless drive to continuously improve everything every day. All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. 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 way the entire community benefits and the company itself learns to take pride in what they’ve accomplished. 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.It tells you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. Paul teaches that learning to see waste is so important because you can’t eliminate waste if you can’t see it.

Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time - with more than 56 million views and counting. 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? You can apply this book anywhere, but harried moms might be the first group I would recommend it to.

I should have been making videos six years ago, but I got paralyzed because I wanted everything to be perfect.