A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance

This is a great little book on applying lean principles and the Toyota method to your personal work set-up, whether you are self-employed, work for a small business, or work for a large enterprise.

The author makes good use of humor to get his point across.

I borrowed this book from the library, not knowing how good it would be, but determined to attempt to implement the ideas as I read the book. I have needed to reorganize my office and get rid of unnecessary items in it for quite some time, but this book provided me with the necessary boot in the pants to get it done.

While I already had the idea of implementing several ideas in the book before reading about them, it was reassuring to have an unbiased push in the same direction. Because show more of the changes I have made, I feel like my work environment is now much more geared toward getting work done and not letting things fall through the cracks. It will take some maintenance to keep it that way, but there is no system that won't require maintenance. show less