This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today we're going to learn how to make sure you never run out of anything ever again by using Kanban, which is a system that comes from the lean manufacturing movement.

Oh, it's not easy running a daycare center. And Grandma Cuddles of

Grandma Cuddle's daycare should know. The lilies of the field may not toil or spin, but

grandma knows that an honest day's labor is just the thing to instill a good work ethic in her

youngsters. And business is booming. She's teaching her tiny charges handwriting, an extremely

marketable skill.

She gives them samples of famous people's handwriting, you know, CEOs, heads of state,

stuff like that, and they develop dexterity, learning to imitate that handwriting exactly.

Cuddles even gives them cute little tax forms, bank checks, contracts, and other realistic

pieces of paper to practice their writing skills

in real-world situations.

But with growth comes growing pains.

So Grandma has hired a new chief financial officer to examine the company's systems.

Straight from the World Poker Federation, he's known simply as Chip.

He swears that he never cheated ever, so Cuddles knew that he was the right person for the job.

Chip's first action, other than putting on his monocle, was to review operations.

The theoretical maximum output of Grandma Cuddle's signature paperwork division, given the speed,

dexterity, and joint flexibility of spry little hands, is 15 signed defense contracts per hour,

but only five were actually being

produced. He investigated. Cuddles recently started feeding the kiddies a full day's complement

of calories. They're riding twice as fast as before, so why was the output so low? Because the

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