Top Highlights

• if you learn and adopt a basic set of Lean principles, you’ll foster a new mindset that will enable you to see your work differently, do it better, and start on a path of constant improvement and learning in the process.
• In my opinion, this is the core of Lean: the development of awareness and problem-solving skills, the capacity for self-correction, and total dedication to improvement.
• More importantly, you also need to know how to find the root causes creating that inefficiency—and eliminate them.
• The goal of this book is to help you work more mindfully—to be aware of what you’re doing in the moment because you’ve been able to remove the physical and psychic clutter that dilutes your productivity.
• From the perspective of Lean, there are three kinds of activities: value-added work, non-value-added (but necessary) work—also called “incidental” work—and waste.