What is Waiting Waste?
Waiting is a special case among all waste types. In most cases, the victim of this waste is not responsible for it in the first place. This makes its elimination more difficult, because one nearly...
View ArticleHow do You Measure Waiting Waste?
Waiting waste is one of the most prominent and important types of waste. Why? Because waiting reflects the scarcest resources of our lives: time. If we want to reduce spoilt time, we need to reduce...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Waiting Waste (Exercise)
The first step to reduce waiting waste is to get a useful to-do list. Having an inventory of to-dos in your mind will never allow you to manage it properly. Exercise 14: Make a small list of to-dos,...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Over-Processing
As I said, over-processing is difficult to detect and therefore, to reduce. You need to prevent it. The only successful way to reduce over-processing is prevention. What can you do? Most important it...
View ArticleWhat is Waste of Intellect?
Waste of intellect is brainpower used for wasteful things.Click To Tweet My first example for intellect waste comes from the waiting waste section. I hope you like the others as well. If you have a...
View ArticleMicro-Sport (Exercise)
From the Lean perspective, sport is ambivalent: On the one hand, it can be fun and improve your health, thus adding value. On the other hand, you can view it as motion for the sake of motion, which...
View ArticleTime is not Money – Time is Life
Everybody knows it. Time that has past cannot be replenished. What is gone is gone. But who acts according to this knowledge? I have no scientific statistics to back this claim up, but I dare to say:...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Waiting Waste, Revisited
Some time ago, a friend of our neighbor turned 72 and ordered a very big recreational vehicle. It would have cost 160’000€, but before it was delivered the doctors discouvered a vicious type of cancer....
View Article5 Reasons to Quit Waiting for Your Dreams to Come True
Imagine the following dialogue: Person #1: “Since I am 17 I wanted to learn the Italian language.” Person #2: “You are 67, what happened to your dream in the last 50 years?” Person #1: “Well, somehow...
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