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The 80/20 Way to Improve the Work and Remove Unproductive Complexity
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Aim it. Run it every day. Let the line own it. Count it in results.
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About the book
Faded tape where the forklifts turn. A shadow board with four tools and the outlines of eleven. A binder that counted events, ideas and audit scores, and never once counted an order that shipped late. The tools worked. The program faded, for four reasons, and each one was a choice.
Lean That Lasts reverses all four: aim improvement with 80/20, run it every day, let the line own it, and count it in results. The fourteen chapters connect the waste walk, standard work, visual control and flow with team ownership, the financial count and a calendar two people deep.
Every tool is worked through at one composite plant, from the first morning to the thousandth day, with the numbers shown, including the morning after the coach left. The companion to the Lean masterclass of The 80/20 Institute. Your teams do the work in Lean That Lasts · The Field Guide.
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“What Mr. Canady has done here is curate a business system of complementary processes that make a material impact on business performance. If you are looking for a way to pull your business together and get your teams focused on the few things that truly matter, start here.”
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“Bill Canady does not treat leadership as a collection of motivational slogans. Instead, he presents a practical framework for understanding why some organizations execute well while others struggle.”
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“How do we improve the way work gets done?” Every day
How to use it
Use the forty worksheets with your model-line team, team leaders and coach. Price the waste, write the best way down, run the daily boards and connect the work to lead time, delivery, quality and the finance-signed count.
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The companion
Fillable PDF available
Forty worksheets, one instrument at a time, with Brennick Door & Frame’s worked examples to guide your own. Work from Day Zero through the model line’s first hundred days, the monthly review and the thousand-day plan. The 151-page PDF combines the cover with 150 pages of working material and 2,337 fillable fields.
Letter-size, built to be written in. Print and fillable PDF. The book keeps the narrative; the guide holds the working paper.
The author
Bill Canady runs two billion-dollar-plus companies — one at $1.1 billion and one at $1.5 billion — as Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies. Across global industrial markets he has delivered over $3 billion in shareholder value. A U.S. Navy veteran with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he created the Profitable Growth Operating System (PGOS). He is the author of The 80/20 CEO, The Rule of Three, and other books in the Eighty20 library.
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