How To Stop Being Stupid With Your Time And Resources - with Paul Akers
Paul Akers is an expert in the concept of Kaizen - the art of continuous improvement - and has since authored several works on the benefits of Lean Living, building a multi-million dollar business along the way.
Paul joins Nick today to talk about how continuous improvement can strengthen and improve your life and business, how to nurture and develop culture, productivity, efficiency and much more!
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Paul describes himself as a carpenter, as the concept of taking something raw and unrecognisable, and then transforming it into to something useful and beautiful, is one that can be applied to any pursuit; personal or business. Success isn’t always about money or growth. Sometimes it’s about achieving the thing you set out to do in the first place, and then honing that success into a purer form of quality. The formula for increasing efficiency is to recognise the many ways in which we can reduce waste and making incremental changes, using the teams at hand, so as to tighten and make lean, our systems and processes. Life as we live it each day, is really just a series of processes. All that Lean seeks to do is, is to look at any given process and refining away the waste. Consistent refining leads to a Lean life.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’m just a curious carpenter - how do I fix this and how do I make it better?’
‘I want a quality life. I want a quality company. And I want quality people’
‘I figured out the formula, and then I started experiencing the benefit'
‘Lean believes that the greatest asset is people'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
To learn about Paul’s incredible ‘2 Second Lean Play’ app go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxB-oAsNpFI&feature=youtu.be
2 Second Lean Play iOS - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/2-second-lean-play/id1503694993
2 Second Lean Play Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leanplay
Paul Akers LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulakers/
Paul Akers - https://paulakers.net
Paul Akers YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA694NgEo6Oh09gnNrZ02eg
ABOUT THE GUEST
Paul Akers is the founder and president of FastCap, a product development company specializing in woodworking tools and hardware for the professional builder. Paul’s intense curiosity on how things could be improved paved the way for him to become a prolific innovator and today he holds many US and International patents. FastCap launches approximately 20-30 innovative products per year and has won business of the year in 1999 and 2010.
ABOUT THE HOST
Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.
His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.
His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.
CONTACT METHOD
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