He scheduled time for a daily meeting that is never missed and always attended, and they’ve been doing it for now for years on end.

You’ll discover the powerful improvement community that Paul Akers’ simplicity, humility and enthusiasm created. Paul Akers is the founder and president of FastCap, a product development company specializing in woodworking tools and hardware for the professional builder.I started by listening to the audiobook but I am very picky about audiobook authors so I chose to read the pdf version instead. On my visit to FastCap, Paul’s employees showed me several examples of how they have employed the 2 Second Lean principle to save time and money – usually saving a lot more than just two seconds!

And on top of all that, he discovered the surprising effectiveness of using video to empower employees and massively accelerate results. From the author of the best selling It's Not the Big That Eat the Small, It's the Fast That Eat the Slow comes a vital new guide to increasing business productivity without adding employees or other overhead costs. Akers message is the simple realisation that all people are valuable and, as such, does it make sense for them to work in, or pay for waste?In real life I'd probably be annoyed by these attitudes, but as a piece of media it was refreshingly genuine and optimistic.

It demonstrates the power of lean and Paul talks about how he uses and views in lean in his everyday life.For work I have to get so many education hours in a year and thankfully reading to obtain them is an option.