Eliminating Waste in Business
Run Lean, Boost Profitability
Editorial Review
We actually send documents to more people because we can, because it is so easy to send a mass e-mail. Then, everyone who got the e-mail, at a minimum, wastes the time it takes to read it. It’s so easy to set up meetings and invite anyone to the meeting with the click of a mouse. So we do it, without even thinking about the time it wastes. In our personal and professional lives, we have actually increased our daily costs and made our lives less efficient. This book is about a radically new way of thinking. Don’t think, “Where can I buy the cheapest X?” Instead think, “Do I need to buy X at all?”
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