Lean thinking principles essentially consist of a five-step thought process proposed by Womack and Jones in 1996 to guide managers through a process of lean transformation. Lean thinking is equally applicable in manufacturing (enhancing quality and reducing waste), in entrepreneurial startups where being lean and thinking lean are essential for survival and in large enterprises that have grown to the point where they need to re-think processes and client interfaces. Here are the five principles…
Category: Productivity and Efficiency (Page 2 of 2)
Have you noticed how some days you feel disoriented and confused about how to get through the day with umpteen tasks to do in different categories? Just thinking about the all these things to do overwhelms you and your stress level shoots up. The funny thing is you haven’t done any work yet so why the stress and the confusion? Here are 6 strategies for a better day at work – without the confusion and the inner turmoil…
Creating something new – whether in terms of changing the status quo or something more modest like changing the way a business or organizational process works – cannot happen by thinking the same way about the same things. How do naturally creative people like artists, photographers, designers get their new ideas? Continue reading
Based on an article by Jessica Krampe at success.com
As with Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs where to get from one level (survival) to an advanced level (self-actualization), enhancing productivity requires much the same process according to Tamara Myles, author of The Secret to Peak Productivity (AMACOM, February 2014)…
We all have a capacity for reading much much faster than we typically do. Our reading speed changes as we go through life. When we are in high school, we go through about two hundred words a minute ( 200 wpm ). We get to college/university and, because we have to read faster due to more time constraints and a much greater amount to read, we read faster. Most people in university average about 400 words per minute. Then we get out of university after our first degree, and now we don’t have to read so fast.
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