Financial success is dependent on making better decisions with our money. Making better money decisions depends on our ability to appropriately assign value to the things we buy. Turning off our mental autopilot tendencies and thinking more consciously about value is a prerequisite to improving our financial position.

Every employee of every company in the world is involved in value creation and impacts one or more value streams either directly or indirectly. Unnecessary complexity, over-engineered processes, extraneous approvals, and myriad other blockers impede flow and therefore constrain value addition to any process.