On this week’s show, Paul Akers shares another presentation from Global Lean Leadership Summit 2015 that took place in August in NW Washington State. This week’s presentation is by Sherri Hotzler of Vantec. For more information on Vantec, visit their website.

A big thanks to George Trachilis, of Lean Leadership Institute, for filming/editing/publishing these videos!!! For more information on the Lean Leadership Institute, visit their website.

5 Hacks, tips, tricks you can do with your tape measure that will impress your friends and help you get the job done a little quicker. Can you count the FastCap products?

Paul Akers shares his talk at the Iowa Lean Consortium that took place in Des Moines, Iowa on October 26, 2015.

Paul Akers shares the talk he gave as the special guest presenter at the annual Executive Leadership Forum (formerly the CEO Roundtable) hosted by Insperity’s San Diego office on October 22, 2015.

Josh Newkirk, of MyEmployees, sent us this video showing how Josh and Cham tackle static electricity. Fix what bugs you!

Paul Akers, of The American Innovator show, shares another presentation from Global Lean Leadership Summit 2015 that took place in August in NW Washington State. This week’s presentation is by Shawn Gross of Viking Plastics. For more information on Viking Plastics, visit their website.

A big thanks to George Trachilis, of Lean Leadership Institute, for filming/editing/publishing these videos!!! For more information on the Lean Leadership Institute, visit their website.

For more information on The American Innovator, visit our website or Facebook.

For more information on lean, go to 2 Second Lean or Facebook.

For more information on FastCap, visit our website or Facebook.

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“At the starting point of this interview, Paul Akers, CEO of FastCap in Ferndale (a global enterprise with 900 products in 40 countries, estab. 1997) spoke from Shanghei with Managing Editor Mike McKenzie through FaceTime on their iPhones. Akers was wrapping up an “around-the-world” sojourn. At the finishing point of the interview, face-to-face, after a short time back home, he was leaving the next morning for Dubai to start his third circuitous global trip this year. While biting into a 5 o’clock snack of an apple at the FastCap facility, Akers personified the energy and excitement that leaps off your screen when you visit the FastCap website. “Do I seem the same in person as I do on the videos?” he asked. Without question. He walks the talk. He climbs mountains, literally and figuratively. Innovation is his field, his niche, his passion.

Enjoy this around-the-world of business walk and talk that wanders through garbage bins seeking bicycle parts, through selling flowers on a street corner, crafting guitars, Baptist ministry, teaching high school…then into invention and entrepreneurial business, flying his plane across oceans, and finally into learning Lean and now spreading word as a teacher and evangelist for Lean thinking, practices, and culture (hence, the globetrotting as a consultant, and the popular book 2 Second Lean). Ready to innovate? Here’s your inspiration…”

Paul Akers, of The American Innovator show, shares another presentation from Global Lean Leadership Summit 2015 that took place in August in NW Washington State. This week's presentation is by Filipe Marques of Torre. For more information on Torre, visit their website.

A big thanks to George Trachilis, of Lean Leadership Institute, for filming/editing/publishing these videos!!! For more information on the Lean Leadership Institute, visit their website.

For more information on The American Innovator, visit our website or Facebook.

For more information on lean, go to 2 Second Lean or Facebook.

For more information on FastCap, visit our website or Facebook.

To sign up to receive news regarding The American Innovator show, go to this link.

Paul Akers, of The American Innovator show, shares another presentation from Global Lean Leadership Summit 2015 that took place in August in NW Washington State. This week's presentation is by Scott Barstad of Omniduct. For more information on Omniduct, visit their website.

A big thanks to George Trachilis, of Lean Leadership Institute, for filming/editing/publishing these videos!!! For more information on the Lean Leadership Institute, visit their website.

For more information on The American Innovator, visit our website or Facebook.

For more information on lean, go to 2 Second Lean or Facebook.

For more information on FastCap, visit our website or Facebook.

To sign up to receive news regarding The American Innovator show, go to this link.

Casey Johnner sent Paul Akers a question he had never heard before, “can you make too many improvements in single day?”