Month: November 2014

Lean in Prison

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Paul Akers gives a special greeting to a special lean team and the response is below.

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“The video was a huge hit and because of it more inmates in the blocks with my guys read your book. Some are even stopping by on their way to the other classes asking if they can borrow it to read so that’s cool. The Dept of Corr is doing a big lean event in February so I invited them to my classroom to see the progress we have made. We started in the bathroom like you said and marked the floor for the garbage barrels then marked for a table then on the table marked for the cleaner and paper towels. Now the guys know if there’s towels because it has a spot now. Lean is amazing, to me it’s about making things less stressful and these guys are dealing with stress especially around the holidays. So I marked their desks, chairs, safety glasses with a number so each person knows what’s theirs and not worrying about getting a good seat or a special seat. I incorporated a dictionary that the same number goes on and we even marked their desks with a rectangle for the dictionaries to go. We do a word of the day that they have to define making them one word smarter a day, then we discuss it. We also do stretching at the start of class but like you I started having the guys lead the stretching to become leaders.

Thank you very much again for all your help and know your book affected my life and in turn I’m trying to show the guys the benefits so it’s also affecting their lives all for the better. Thank you.” Jared

The American Innovator – Park Butte

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Paul Akers, of The American Innovator show, takes us along as he goes hiking to the Park Butte Fire Tower in the Cascade Mountain Range with the Boomers Hiking Club. He captured it all using FastCap’s iPole and FastCam (Action Camera) and DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+. Please Note: The FastCam has been discontinued.

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Everest Base Camp Photo Gallery

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Paul Akers and Dana travel to Kathmandu then on to Lukla, on his way to Everest Base Camp. Along the way he captured images of the himalayas, including their first glimpse of Mt. Everest. Paul recorded this entire trip with FastCap’s iPole.

For an hour video on this trip, go to this link.

The American Innovator – Understanding Flow

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Paul Akers, of The American Innovator shares the Lean Leadership Institute Webinar where he talks about flow. Do you fix bottlenecks in your processes? Do you fix what bugs you? You are creating flow!

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Morning Meeting Discussion

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Paul Akers and the FastCap team has a discussion about “having everything you need” after watching a video by The Lean Workshop called The Tsukubai Teaches Us About Lean (http://youtu.be/fMFng3TgfxY).