Comments on: Rowing https://oldleandude.com/2011/03/16/rowing/ A Blog About Understanding The Toyota Production System and Gaining Its Full Benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy" Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rowing II | Old Lean Dude https://oldleandude.com/2011/03/16/rowing/#comment-1191 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:07:48 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=286#comment-1191 […] posts from about three years ago (worth reading for context if you don’t remember it), entitled Rowing, relates a story about the second point, “getting everyone rowing.” The rowing analogy was […]

]]> By: Cost Subtraction « Old Lean Dude https://oldleandude.com/2011/03/16/rowing/#comment-625 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:17:52 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=286#comment-625 […] These superficial improvements created paper savings while weakening productive strength and emptying cash reserves.  Russ Scaffede, a former executive at General Motors, joked as a Shingo Conference speaker, […]

]]> By: Gary H. Lucas https://oldleandude.com/2011/03/16/rowing/#comment-242 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:26:52 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=286#comment-242 Bruce,
I’ve always referred to those swimmers as ‘boat anchors’ because I think they do much more damage than swimmers that slow you down. Your engine can be roaring, the bow high, but if the boat anchor is dug in all you get is a lot of noise.

I wrote to you previously about my efforts to improve our shop. I ended that experiment two weeks ago. I thought that the owner was on board with what I was doing, but the former shop manager who is still working in the shop kept confronting me that he was still the manager, and I was just doing special projects. So I confronted the owner about what exactly the situation was. I learned that the owner was expecting me to essentially write “Shop Management for Dummies” and turn it over to the problem employee to execute! Could it get any worse?

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