Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated
The authors begin by summarizing the five inherent principles in any lean system: Correctly specify value so you are providing what the customer actually wants Identify the value stream for each product family and remove the wasted steps that don’t create value but do create muda (waste) Make the remaining value-creating steps flow continuously to drastically shorten throughput …
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It’s like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working …
What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner
WHAT MAKES A LEADER? CAN YOU REALLY LEARN TO LEAD?You might believe that leaders are born, not made. Perhaps you think that you need to hold an important job to be a leader—that you need permission to lead. Leadership is one of the most important aspects of our society. Yet there is enormous disagreement and confusion about what …