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

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Short and simple, yet it is filled to the brim with extremely tangible ways to grow your lean culture. It creates boundless opportunities and continual employment, adds longevity for existing employees and growth for new people to be brought into the company. I've seen too many Lean attempts get twisted into a time obsession, and sometimes I'm not trying to optimize time. With the strategies outlined in this book, you'll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency. 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.

It’s not limited to just Paul and FastCap but also includes examples from other organizations practicing 2SL. Paul personally visited the City of Ferndale and spent time with employees teaching the concepts of Lean. In such a technical industry it’s surprising to find a world-class lean company with employees whipping out iPhones and filming their 2 second improvements. This book is rather small, with around 150 pages with several images to go along with it, so it is very fast and easy to read the book entirely.

Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the why of their organization.

Sheridan also shows how to run smarter meetings and build cultural training into your hiring process. A popular process improvement strategy used in many corporations, Lean Six Sigma exemplifies eliminating waste and optimizing flow at an operational level. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

Karl Wadensten – President Vibco Vibrators and Radio Talk Show Host Lean Nation on AM790 and 790Business. However, when Paul teaches people about waste he doesn’t immediately approach it from the list of eight terms. With masterful insight and brilliant simplicity, Robin Sharma has distilled some of the most powerful wisdom available for both professional and personal leadership into eight immensely practical lessons that leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs can immediately apply to send morale and productivity soaring.

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. He struggles with all of the common difficulties in construction - lack of communication, coordination issues, and other kinds of wasteful occurrences that rob his project of time and money, while leaving him and his team frustrated and overworked.Too bad it's not from a list of my choosing because we all know how absolutely relatable that would be. But if you’re looking for a clear and simple step-by-step method for implementing lean at your organization, we’ve actually compiled many of the best 2 Second Lean videos and resources into a free course. I definitely recommend the audio version of the book because Akers has many asides and they are all gold.