We look at the world through the eyes of Matt LeBlanc, an efficiency expert (or lean expert), who runs around with a stopwatch and equations, trying to figure out how to eliminate waste in our economy. He finds it everywhere.
I say this with embarrassment: I think this may be a great job for me.
Thinking of Lee Craig's career advice -- don't think about what you want to *be* (efficiency expert = geek whom everyone hates), think about what you want to *do* -- evaluating and recommending ways to improve efficiency is something I could easily get behind. It is in my nature to despise waste, and studying economics has only made me more passionate (anal) about efficiency. Heck, I would relish just going through the efficiency training.
TIM T WOOD: Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Talent, Waiting, Overproduction, Over-processing, and Defects.
5S: Sort, Straighten, Sanitize, Standardize, Sustain.
Lame as it may be, these acronyms make me a little giddy.
Eventually I want to start and run a business, but I want to get my financial floaties on before taking a high-dive into the entrepreneurship pool. The job of efficiency expert might even be a good lead-in to entrepreneurship as I imagine the skills would be quite valuable. I do not see my entrepreneurial venture being an efficiency expert firm, but even just taking on the efficiency expert mindset, my employees might hate me, but as long as I keep the grounding that efficiency is not everything, I don't imagine it would be too bad.
As the efficiency expert in the podcast mentions, he looks for efficiency even in how he organizes his toiletries. As long as you do not get too obsessive, I think it is a good idea to evaluate the efficiency of your daily life, saving your most precious resource, your time.
Thoughts? Does anyone know personally an efficiency expert/lean expert/business process reengineer? What is your perception of the job? How do you think it would fit with entrepreneurship?
