Paul Akers

Stop giving the answers.

Start challenging people to figure it out.

Ultimately, it goes back to the eight ways.

Figure out the eight ways.

Right, exactly.

Why are you locked in your office?

Why aren't you out figuring out why the mixing machine's not working well or figuring out how we can make the mixing machine more efficient?

Why is the two different aggregates always getting mixed together?

Why aren't the partitions between them more effective?

Why are there potholes?

I've been in so many gravel pits, I can't even tell you, and concrete mixing places and asphalt.

They're chaos.

They're absolute chaos.

It's rare that you'll ever go to a concrete aggregate, prefab concrete place.

They're just total chaos.

Just problems everywhere, except for the lean ones.

equipment problems people problems yeah just safety problems everything problems problem problems actually there's a great video toronto concrete a huge company in ireland that just went through a six-month transformation with two-second lean and it's the most breathtaking tour you've ever seen i can't even begin to tell you and they went from total chaos to total order and total functionality at the highest level in six months

Big company, big, big company.

Yeah, because the owner went to Japan with me and the owner realized how the deficiency, the gap between what the Japanese were doing and what he was doing.

And he thought he was good.