The LEAN Deal

Learn, understand and apply Lean - The guidebook for your Lean success

The Yellotools company is organized according to the Lean principle: We permanently improve our work processes and avoid waste of any kind.

After the Lean topic became more and more popular in the last years and we regularly conduct company tours for people interested in Lean management,
Yellotools founder and CEO Michael Althoff decided to publish a guide on this topic as a printed book:

"Most books on lean management are purely about optimizing profits, increasing efficiency and asserting companies in the relevant markets. But my motivation for this book is rather what is NOT addressed in these clever works ... namely the PEOPLE behind or BEFORE these formulas, graphics and clever process insights!

What does LEAN do with us, how do we as individuals benefit from it, why should we change anything at all and how much energy do we have to spend on it?

Change - but how?

The motivation: I would like to "pick up" ALL of you with my book and show you the absolutely ingenious effect and simplicity of the LEAN principles on the basis of my modest and very easy to understand background.

My goal is that after reading the pages you put the book aside with a smile and think: "Really? Is this really THAT easy? Ok, I can do THAT too."
And what I really wish is that my words seem so important to you that you put the book in each other's hands. From the boardroom to the shop floor and OVER, from friend to friend, within your family, colleague to colleague, and business partner to business partner. I am 100% convinced that the insights of the LEAN lifestyle can not only improve everyone's life across barriers, across countries, across parties and completely free of animosity, but that LEAN is THE small revolution that we humans so urgently need in these bizarre times to be able to focus on the essentials again.

Easy to understand guide for everyone

Who is the book for? This book is for you, you hard workers, busy managers, frustrated executives, disappointed warehouse workers, skilled workers, foremen, forklift drivers, engineers, enervated job seekers, large corporations with 100,000 employees or "one-man/woman show", you single moms or dads and financially depleted lone wolves, youthful job seekers or start-ups - in short: for EVERY one of you "seekers" :) You work in a company that you think could use a change or you run a company that is not running as it could? This book is for you!

How do I break the ice, what are the first steps, and how do I get either "those up there" to rethink or my team on board? - That shall be my topic in this little work."

Author: Michael Althoff
Publisher: Yellotools GmbH, Wilberhofener Straße 1-3. 51570 Windeck, Germany, Phone +49 2292 397 400
Editors: Sina Becker, Michael Althoff
Typesetting & Layout: Olga Leis, Gregor Deisen
Cover: Alexx Marrone
Photography: Michael Roth
Graphics / Illustrations: Alex Marrone
Printed by: WIRmachenDRUCK Gmbh, Mühlbachstraße 7, 71522 Backnang, Germany