Reviews for Creating the Ultimate Lean Office: A Zero-Waste Environment With Process Automation

The average rating for Creating the Ultimate Lean Office: A Zero-Waste Environment With Process Automation based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-16 00:00:00 Robert K. Meiswinkle Seldom if ever, do you have a book that there will be placed on two extreme sides of an opinion. This book qualifies for that 'once-in-a-blue-moon' phenomenon. Larry Winget with his ferocious teeth of wisdom, his Pitbull persistence and his Irritating persona has managed to do it yet again. This is a book you will either hate or love - I can assure you nothing in between. If you are an employer you would wish to employ this as your official HR Manual going to the extent of ensuring each and everyone employee of your company reads passages of this book each and everyday - more like the general assembly and prayers; practiced in many schools as a regular ridiculous ritual. However, if you are an employee, you will want to burn and detest this book with every inch of your life. It would more like the infamous 'Book of the Dead' in Evil Dead. It will haunt them, give them less sleep and ruin their existence forever. I mean can a book get more brutal, blunt and boisterous than this? On a very sincere note, I can tell you without a doubt, this book made me uncomfortable - really uncomfortable, simply because it was the truth - and nothing but the truth. It just simply strips down the working environment to the simplest forms. But now even with all these praises, I doubt this book will do well. Why? We are a planet where people do not want to get out of their comfort zone. In fact, if I were an employee working for a company, I would hate Larry Winget to my very bones. I mean I love being lazy. I love being paid for no work. I am used to this culture. We as employees feel we are doing this universe a favor by our mere existence. And when you have a self-help guru coming out of nowhere ready to destroy that amazing luxury with hard-work, sweat and blood - no way in hell!!! Now would I recommend this book? Yes, without a doubt. Simply because these are the gems of wisdom I wish were inculcated into me since the day I was born. They are devoid of all the glamorous garbage motivational speakers sprinkle and techniques which are simply stupid, impractical and purely laughable. When I closed the chapters of this book, I could say, yes, nothing said here is like a 'new' technique or something revolutionary. But I would conclude by saying simply this, if common sense was more common, we would have lesser problems in the world today. Larry Winget is fortunately for us a wild cowboy who is not afraid to shoot from the hip. Sometimes may be we need just that - A wild cowboy like him to help us make the change. Overall rating - 8 out 10.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-12 00:00:00 V R Patience I was youger when I read this, and even though I was more naive back then and it made a whole lot of sense to me then, it still makes some sense now. In the discussion regarding the amount of control we have on our lives, the author clearly sides on the "american" school of thought claiming that succes is your responsibility. I still remember one anecdote from the book, it goes something like "Some top manager of a company needed someone on a management position. He looked around and saw a guy who always comes first and always leaves last. The manager said 'how about promoting that guy?'". Well sure that definitely makes some sense...in my experience though both very inefficient workers AND workaholics...AND people on badly managed teams will be putting in extra hours. Another thing I remember from this book is the encouragement to just be 10% better than the rest of your competitors. Though reality is always more complex than what these self-help books, it's good to read some of these things from time to time for keeping the motivation up. Overall even if simplistic, the author seems genuine and his ideas are very non-corporate-bs.