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The Seven Forms of Waste (Lean Manufacturing)
Borrowed from Josh's mentor Mike Schwartz, formerly of Amazon.
How it works
- 1Transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, overproduction, overprocessing, defects.
- 2Waiting is named the number one killer of startup momentum.
- 3The method: whatever you do today is your process — watch it, find the waste, remove it.
Hear it on the podcast
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