Lean and Personal Productivity

Toyota, the shining example of lean today, offers excellent insights and a guide toward improving personal productivity.

In a LifeHack article entitled "What Toyota Can Teach You about Personal Productivity," authors Peter Paul Roosen and Tatsuya Nakagawa offer these tips:

• Create manual systems first, then use technology as a tool to assist the process.
• Create an environment where constant learning occurs.
• Eliminate – don’t just reduce waste.
• Build quality into everything. Aim for “great” rather than just “good enough” wherever there is opportunity to do so.
• Create systems to respect and treat partners well.
• Work with others but maintain core competencies. Do not outsource the important decisions.
• Chose friends and associates carefully.