How to Balance Your Crap-to-Fun Ratio With a Personal Kanban, Featuring Shingo-Prize-Winning Author Jim Benson

This episode is jam-packed with goodies! For Today’s Special, Tracy interviews Jim Benson, the coauthor of Personal Kanban.

For the Appetizer we’ll review a free time tracking app called Toggl. For Lean Six Sigma In The News, we’ll find out how the Army uses Lean Six Sigma to stay “mission ready,” and for the Printed Page, we’ll review Jim Benson’s book, Personal Kanban, for a way to reduce our “existential overload” – those weighty “To Do” lists that wake us up at 3am. That’s good news for everyone!

Also Listen On:

Timeline

* 1:59 Appetizer of the Day

* Toggl

* 5:30 In the News

* How DMAIC Helped the U.S. Pacific Command Improve Operational Readiness by 40%

* 8:08 The Printed Page

* Personal Kanban by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria

* Best Books to Buy: Personal Kanban (Book Review)

* 12:40 Coupon Code

* Special coupon code for all of our awesome listeners: 20% discount on all of our online training!

* 13:42 Today’s Special

* Interview with Shingo-Prize-Winning author Jim Benson

* 39:22 This Just In

* Success Story: How UC San Diego Saved 2,000 Hours a Year in the Employee Onboarding Process With Kristin Kielich

* Webinar: How to Make the Swimlane Map Work for You

* New eBook: The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit

Podcast Transcript

So the other day, one of the lean managers at a fairly major company came to me and said, ‘I just want you to know that for years we’ve been trying to get people to do their A3s. We’ve been trying to get people to do their Kaizen events. We’ve been trying to get people to analyze things in these various ways or measure this or measure that. The only thing we’ve been reliably able to get people to do is personal Kanban.’ – Jim Benson

Elisabeth Swan: Hi, everybody. I’m Elisabeth Swan.

Tracy O’Rourke: And I’m Tracy O’Rourke.

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Tracy O’Rourke: Maybe they don’t recognize us.

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