5S: Foundation for Personal and Business Excellence

Research shows that if you work 8 hours a day only 1 hour of work has been of value - 7 hours have been wasted. This means there is a huge opportunity to improve. A simple and effective way to get started is by implementing 5-S. It is simple yet powerful and can be practised by everyone regardless of occupation and position. Be it the place for work or fun; public or private; we need to practise 5-S to make this world a better place to live. This book presents 5-S principles in a simple language and easy to use methodology and should help in spreading its awareness and practice. - S K Kakkar, CII US based quality expert, Rai Chowdhary, with over 25 years of experience with organizations such as NASA, Abbott Labs, Frito-Lay, Larsen and Toubro, is an award winning speaker, entrepreneur, business coach, has authored life-changing book Do-MAgIC - 7 Steps to Winning and serves on several international Technical committees. You may reach him at rai_chowdhary@yahoo.com. A former Professor with ISI, Kailash Anand has been on a mission, spreading quality awareness and analytical techniques across India and abroad, training more than 10,000 executives, and helping turn many loss making companies into profit making ventures, publishing several papers in international journals and authoring path breaking book High Quality at an Economical Cost. You may reach him at knaisi@hotmail.com.