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Book Review: “Personal Kanban” by Jim Benson

Jason Ziebarth
2 min readJan 7, 2024

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Mapping Work Navigating Life

Most time management methods out there don’t really work. However, there’s an idea called Personal Kanban that’s based on a system Toyota used to streamline production. It’s like a visual map for your goals and tasks at home and work. It can help with Procrastination and was adapted into a personal time management system by the Authors. Let’s Dive in.

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📣 Curious Quotes from the Author:

“As the freeway approaches 100% capacity, it ceases being a freeway. It becomes a parking lot.”

“It’s that balance between cars and open space that gives us flowing traffic.”

“If there are two takeaways from this book, we hope they are: Work unseen is work uncontrolled and We can’t (and shouldn’t!) do more work than we can handle.”

“Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. ~Confucius

“Personal Kanban has only two rules: Visualize your work and Limit your work-in-progress.”

📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:

The book emphasizes that work life and personal life aren’t separate realms but…

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Jason Ziebarth
Jason Ziebarth

Written by Jason Ziebarth

From 20+ Years Working in Tech to Career Burnout. Now I write about the #FutureofWork, The #FutureofCareer, and The #FutureofDigitalConnection

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