We may earn a commission from links on this page. Studies have shown that a decluttered workspace can decrease stress and increase focus—and that stress at work can actually result in more clutter. It ...

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In many companies, 5S often gets treated like the vegetable salad at a company-sponsored buffet — everyone knows it’s good for one’s health, but many silently skip it for the steak. After all, who ...

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Almost everyone knows it well – Sort, Set in Order, Sweep, Standardize and Sustain. It’s the English version of 5S, a productivity formula popularized by the Japanese in the 1980s. It helps declutter ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank page, trying to organize a complex idea or process, but not knowing where to start? Whether it’s mapping out a workflow, designing an organizational ...

If your business operations sometimes (or always) feel chaotic and inefficient, your company may benefit from implementing a 5S program. This organizing and streamlining process can be used in any ...

Visio in Microsoft 365 is a superb tool for creating custom diagrams to illustrate concepts that are difficult to explain through text. Here’s how to use it. It’s often much easier to convey ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...