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Lead With Humiliation
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Very early in my Lean adventure as a new VP of Operations, when the idea of listening to workers was still a little strange, I returned from a week..
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October 04 , 2012.
Overcoming TDD
Gross numbers reflecting American productivity can be misleading. When American companies outsource production, the labor “expense” is replaced with..
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September 21 , 2011.
How Big are Small Ideas?
In 1985, when I transferred to an operations role I inherited a production-only suggestion program. I recall that we received sixteen ideas that year..
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September 16 , 2011.
Mad as H_ll
Okay, I admit, some days I get a little upset when I think about the exodus of jobs from our shores. This clip from the movie Network sums up my..
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September 12 , 2011.
Blame Wars
My introduction to corrective action, about forty years ago, was a four-part form called an Internal Discrepancy Report, or “IDR” as it was..
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September 08 , 2011.