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Month: April 2018

Thinking of laying off staff?

April 25, 2018 by Paul

Categories *Contains Videos, 2 Second Lean, eBlast, Lean

2018 Global Lean Leadership Summit

April 23, 2018 by Paul

Paul Akers welcome folks to the Global Lean Leadership Summit at YelloTools in Windeck, Germany on September 12-13, 2018. For more information on the 2018 Global Lean Leadership Summit, visit the website.

Categories *Contains Videos, 2 Second Lean Summit, Lean Organizations, Speaking Events Tags Michael Althoff, YelloTools

Happy Earth Day!

April 22, 2018 by Paul

Happy Earth Day! Hard to believe it was a year ago I was on the World Forestry Tour with my mentor, Bob Taylor.

Press here to watch the all the videos!

Categories *Contains Videos, Paul's Adventures Tags Bob Taylor, Taylor Guitars, World Forestry Tour

Want to know the Kaizen Hat story?

April 21, 2018 by Paul

Paul Akers tells the story of the Kaizen Hat and how it came to be! It is to honor the Japanese people for everything he has learned from them.

Categories *Contains Videos, FastCap, FastCap Products, Kaizen, Lean Tags Kaizen, Kaizen Hat

“Do I have a Lean Black Belt?”

April 18, 2018 by Paul

Categories *Contains Videos, 2 Second Lean, eBlast, Lean

Japan – Lean Laundrymat

April 17, 2018 by Paul

Paul Akers is impressed with just how lean the machines are at a laundromat in Japan.

Categories *Contains Videos, Lean, Lean Organizations, Lean Travel Tags Paul Akers

Fastcap’s 21 Principles – People and Things

April 16, 2018 by Paul

Paul Akers discusses one of FastCap’s 21 principles called People and Things. Are you someone who takes responsibilities for more and more people and things?

For more all of FastCap’s morning meeting documents, go to this link and look under Lean Documents.

Categories *Contains Videos, FastCap, Lean, Lean Fastcap, Morning Meeting

Do you Need a Kanban Board?

April 15, 2018 by Paul

Excellent video of Rich Stein & Mike Trulove explaining how using a Kanban board has been improving their production. Great work gentlemen!

Categories *Contains Videos, Kanban, Lean, Lean Organizations

Lean Lessons Learned: Worth Repeating!

December 30, 2019April 13, 2018 by Paul

What would I do differently if I had all the Lean knowledge and experience I have today? Check out my post on the Lean Construction Blog entitled Lean Lessons Learned: 10 Steps to Success.

Categories 8 Wastes, Kanban, Lean Tags Lean Construction Blog

What does Lean mean to you?

April 13, 2018 by Paul

John Kramer, at Cambridge Engineering shares what Lean means to him.

Categories *Contains Videos, Lean, Lean Organizations Tags Cambridge Engineering
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