{"id":7471,"date":"2025-04-22T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:03:50","slug":"5s-your-environment-and-not-just-your-work-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/5s-your-environment-and-not-just-your-work-area\/","title":{"rendered":"5S Your Environment and Not Just Your Work Area"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The steps of 5S include things that we can do in our everyday lives with our workplaces, our house, our neighborhood. When you do that, I think it makes the world a better place for everyone.<\/p>\r\n<p>Download my free ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation-Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1043940833?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Well hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Many, many years ago, a friend of mine and I went to Hong Kong because I&#8217;d read the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tai-Pan-Asian-Saga-James-Clavell\/dp\/0440184622\">Tai-Pan<\/a>,\u201d and I really wanted to see Hong Kong back before it became part of China. It was about \u201895, I think, 30 years ago. Anyway, so we went there, and I had a vision in my head that it was more the 1800s, but I walked around in Hong Kong, and everything was spic and span. The streets were clean.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;And I discovered that to everybody there, it&#8217;s verboten to mess with it, right? Just like in Texas, they don&#8217;t mess with Texas, throwing stuff from your car. No, the same sort of thing, right? And if there was something laying on the ground&#8230; you\u2019d see somebody just pick it up and put it in a trash can.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So, I would like you to think about that as a way to go about life because whenever I&#8217;m out wandering around\u2026 I was walking into work the other day and there was a little bag for potato chips. I just picked it up, put it in the trash by the door when I walked in. And I\u2018ve picked up bottles and all kinds of crud I keep finding as we go through here, right? But what are we doing? Let&#8217;s police that area. It&#8217;s part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/lean-5s-video.html\">5S process<\/a>, right? Put stuff away. Trash it and, you know, don&#8217;t leave a mess. And if everybody did that, I think we&#8217;d have much cleaner cities, much cleaner workplaces and whatever.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I do the same thing at the office. The other day, we had a shipping tube that we&#8217;d been using to go to conferences and we weren&#8217;t using it anymore and I took it to Goodwill. Get it out of the office. Get it out of the way, right? 5S: Sort, Straighten, Shine [Standardize and Sustain], right? All of these things are things that we can do in our everyday lives with our workplaces, our house, our neighborhood, and when you do that, I think it makes the world a better place for everyone.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: 5S Your Environment. 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