Very recently, I had a chance to respond to an academic essay titled, “Lean Six Sigma”. Lean, as I referred to it throughout the course of the response, is essentially concerned with reducing waste and eliminating activities that do not add significant value to business processes in business organizations. Now, I want to make sure that I do not bore you any further with the idea of Lean.
Habitually, I have a knack for looking at patterns, ideas, concepts, and other abstract phenomena and try to find ways I may be able to incorporate them into my own struggling life. Because I always wanted to be a better person, to be able to speak better, to write better, to stand better, dress better, pray better and most importantly, to eat my heart out in wanting to think better.
So, as I progressed in the academic writing, it got incredibly thrilling I began to muse to myself, “if inanimate, lifeless entities such as organizations and other abstract systems can leave no stone unturned at reducing excesses and eliminating wastes in hopes they may become more prosperous and highly competitive, what more could man, God’s most creative of all of His creations, do about leaning up?
It is against this backdrop, having looked at my greatest strengths and core capabilities, I develop concise ways to write smarter, speak smarter and think smarter. In other words, I figured it was about time we trimmed the fats and cut down on variations. Let’s lean up and look and act hungrier.
Today, we are all guilty of being exceptionally busy we do not have the time or attention span to read more words than necessary. Every second, we are hit by avalanche of news, messages and information we scarcely have time to intensely understand and be well entertained. It oughtn’t be.
Here, I get a list of words to eliminate to help us speak and write more succinctly. But I’m going to be churning out one or two every night to avoid mental clutter, and following which we may have a discussion.
About the Author
Raji Ade Oba is a visionary writer and scholar. Apart from his creation of scholarly works in various disciplines, he also writes liberally on leadership, communications, and personal development strategies. He tells beautiful stories that reach our hearts, that throw us into immediacy and allow us to pause for reflection- as we marvel at our own earthiness, and just how do we fit in the larger scheme. Raji Ade Oba simply challenges our inner person, soul and spirit to reach for the top.
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