• Kaizen for Small Business Startup

  • How to Gain and Maintain a Competitive Edge by Applying the Kaizen Mindset to Your Startup Business and Management - Improve Performance, Communication & Productivity
  • By: Jeffrey Ries
  • Narrated by: Sam Slydell
  • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (63 ratings)

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Kaizen for Small Business Startup

By: Jeffrey Ries
Narrated by: Sam Slydell
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Publisher's summary

The complete guide collection to learning Lean Startup, Lean Six Sigma, Lean Analytics, Lean Enterprise, Kanban, Kaizen, Scrum, and Agile Project Management!

Do you want to incorporate the concept of teamwork and ensure every employee feels like a valuable part of your organization? Do you want to increase your overall productivity, profits, and employee satisfaction score? Do you want to minimize errors and constantly seek newer, fresher, and more improved ways of approaching processes and systems?

If yes, then pay attention.

A business is no different from a machine. It has to be well-oiled and programmed to perform the desired task if you don’t want it to end as a disaster.

Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that is responsible for driving the success of several organizations not just in Japan, but across the world. It explores simple, actionable, yet highly effective ideas that have the power to transform the destiny of your start-up.

Here are some takeaways from the audiobook:

  • Kaizen and teamwork 
  • The dos and don’ts of applying Kaizen in a start-up
  • Tips for developing a Kaizen mind-set
  • The five Ss of Kaizen and how they can completely reinvent the way you do things
  • A step-by-step Kaizen implementation guide for start-ups
  • Idea-sharing and Kaizen boards
  • And much more!

If you want to use the Japanese philosophy that is powering the results of several organizations all over the world, click on the “Buy Now” button to get your copy today!

©2018 Jeffrey Ries (P)2018 Jeffrey Ries

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Everything written in this book makes sense,

A huge important information you will get about Kaizen in this book. This book provide you lots of trips about Kaizen methodology to an enterprise and manufacturing process.

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Everybody should listen this book!

The narration was clear and well paced. I think for beginners it is a nice easy to understand, concise introduction and works well as a quick reference.

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One of the best books

One of the best books 📚I've ever invested in; helped me get my dream job.

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Good information,

Good information, it gets to the basics of improvement and provides a pathway to lead yourself and others. Recommend it.

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Good content.

If you are looking any guide on kaizen then you can follow this guide. The author provides here all that I need. thanks

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I highly recommend this audio book

I really enjoyed this book. It is probably one of the best books that I have read all year!

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Better than expected

This is an important book for every entrepreneur. The author describes his method clearly with many real life examples

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This audio book is really awesome!

Interesting book to listen. This book provides some great information on how to easily learn all about kaizen. Recommended!

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Perfect

The example are very simple so helpful for more complicated questions but very useful as a refresher or to illustrate quickly how to use tools & basic methodology. Highly recommend this book. Thanks!

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Extremely Good

It is a book that help you make big changes by doing little things. It is book with many insights.

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  • Jade Lei Joseph
  • 04-09-20

very informative

Great tips were shared that could not only be implemented in your business but in your everyday life

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  • Jodie Moss
  • 07-23-19

Valuable guide

This is one of the best books that I have ever listen in my whole bloody life regardless of genre

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  • Matthew Houghton
  • 07-23-19

Clear and informative

I found the book well-written; illustrations very helpful, it gave me some "harder edges" around the use of metrics in my own startups.

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  • Freya Simpson
  • 07-23-19

Great narration

I had enjoyed listening and learning from this book. The summary is good. Every part and every chapter of the book was briefly summarized, giving only the most important segments.

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  • Demi Crawford
  • 07-23-19

Great book

The book is very enlightening and thought provoking, while providing many tools for self help and atmospheric change.

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  • Oscar Wallis
  • 07-22-19

Very very impressive!

A great appreciating book. Learning approach. Providing proven tips and steps. Thanks the author for a good job. Recommended. Loving stuff.

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  • Thorsten Hoch
  • 07-22-19

So great and filled with useful info

It's a basic simple rule that we all tend to overlook. Must listen to those who want to get started to change their life regardless of their present situations .

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  • Marina Propst
  • 07-22-19

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Its great if you follow small and consistent steps path towards your goal. thank you

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  • Daisy Barber
  • 07-22-19

Loved this book

Loved this book it gave me insight on my failures and successes. I am using it for myself at home and at work.

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  • Zoe Carroll
  • 07-22-19

Really Helpful!

I will listen this again. This book is a great way to apply the concepts of kaizen beyond manufacturing/production.