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

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At the age of 15 he built his own guitar and earned the attention of guitar designer Bob Taylor, who mentored and eventually put Paul to work for Taylor Guitars.

No flow charts or graphs – just the real life journey of one company and the astounding results Lean thinking can produce. If you think of Lean as something meant to merely increase profit in your workplace, you will fail to implement Lean. Through photos of Paul’s Lean journey, we come to know the person, the process of being Lean, and the principles that change everything. Many applications don't apply to my life or work culture, but the mindset shifts presented in this book are challenging me to rethink my workflow and processes. Indeed, it’s the things that bug us every day that are actually the eight wastes of lean in disguise.It’s very applicable to all of life and I’ve already completed a few of my own two second improvements!

He graduated from Biola University in 1983 with honors, obtaining a degree in education with an emphasis in Greek and German. By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as "Scrum", Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1200 percent.Every day at FastCap begins with an hour-long 3S period to improve their workplace and “fix what bugs them. 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. It gets junk out of the way, makes problems more visible, and keeps every needed tool nicely organized and within reach.

His company FastCap, a lean manufacturer, launches approximately 20 new innovative products per year and has won business of the year in 1999 and 2010.He reads the audiobook himself and would literally go off on tangents about stuff that popped into his head. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of "sell it—do it, sell it—do it" that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try.