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

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Paul demonstrates the same spirit of adventure that I imagine the engineers at Ford and Toyota must have felt those many years ago a spirit so often lost in modern Lean. When a light switch is flipped the flow of energy that is released reaches the lightbulb in an instant, bringing it to life.

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. Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconven­tional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field. Through photos of Paul’s Lean journey, we come to know the person, the process of being Lean, and the principles that change everything.He ditched “kaizen events” and taught his people to make a 2-second improvement every day (hence 2 Second Lean). offers an inspirational blueprint for listeners in any field who want a committed, energizing atmosphere at work - leading to sustainable business results.

The book is also packed with QR codes for just a small, but telling sample of the videos on the FastCap public YouTube channel – which are freely shared with generosity and warmth. Join author, business expert, radio show host, and international speaker Paul A Akers, as he takes you on a LEAN journey that will transform every aspect your life - from your home to the office. Solid content but I was initially put off by the overly casual nature of the book and, to be honest, the cover. Stop making crazy and unsustainable changes… instead figure out what you can be continuously improving and make small (2 second) improvements. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage.Paul and his wife, Leanne, have built FastCap from their garage into a multi-million dollar company. An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Paul Akers explains how the system blurs the distinction and soothes the frictions between labor and management by enlisting the brainpower of all employees from the top to the bottom.

Over the course of these extraordinary interviews, they shared memorable stories and eye-opening insights. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. Under Lean we are all management whether in the private or the public sector, Karl Marx would never have approved! The book also contains great reflection questions at the end of each chapter, giving the work a real vitality. Everybody tells you how to implement Lean… but Paul reveals the values that make Lean grow from within your people.

From humble beginnings, and no MBA, FastCap now has thousands of distributors worldwide in over 40 countries.