Top Five Resources to Help You Streamline Your Business

The Team Handbook Third Edition, by Streibel, Joiner, and Scholtes

This is a cookbook for how to use teams to improve operations. It has information about methods for approaching different kinds of improvements. This includes advice for six sigma, lean systems, and for generally improving work processes. It includes great checklists and forms for planning and managing meetings. It also includes concrete advice for setting the stage for effective teamwork as well as dealing with problems such as dominating and reluctant participants.

Who Moved My Cheese?  by Johnson and Blanchard

Fun and easy to read, Who Moved My Cheese is a great metaphor for dealing with change. In the story, two mice and two little people enter a maze each day looking for cheese. One day the cheese is missing - SHOCK, HORROR! The mice and little people deal with the change in very different ways. Whether you are creating change or reacting to change, you’ll find that you relate well to these characters and begin to view and react to change in very different ways.

The Goal,  by Goldratt 

Another fun and easy-to-read story, The Goal is about a businessman who is seeking to save his company. It explains many lean manufacturing concepts through the story. For example, while on a hiking trip with his son, the businessman learns about increasing speed by focusing on the slowest operation.

The Memory Jogger II, by Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter

This is the updated classic pocket guide for quality improvement. It is the first in the memory jogger series of about a dozen in varying topics including six sigma, lean, and project management. It’s easy to find what you are looking for in this pocket-sized book, making it a handy reference to carry with you.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK), by Project Management Institute

The 5 processes (initiating, planning, executing, managing and controlling, and closing) as well as the 9 knowledge areas (scope, cost, time, human resources, quality, risk, procurement, communications and integrations) are covered in great detail in this reference. It is designed to be applicable to all industries that focus on managing projects. 

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