So, who are “THEY?” They are the people on the other side of the table, Whether they are a Customer or Client, an Investor, or an Employer, they all want to know the same three basics. Are they going to benefit? If they’re a potential customer or client, is their “bottom line” going to grow?…
A bunch of us from my Toastmasters club planned to go to a comedy club where Will Durst was scheduled early in his career. When we got there, Will Durst had been postponed but we settled in for an entertaining evening anyway. A couple of guys from New Jersey came on the stage. They knew…
“This is ridiculous! Why would you write such crap?” Not the response I expected after precisely documenting the desoldering process. “I wrote exactly what’s happening in the lab across the street.” The Director of Quality knocked her chair over in her rush to get to the other building, yelling into her cell phone to the…
Working with Startups for the last 17 years, I’ve heard this many times when I ask about their competition. “I don’t have any competition. No one is doing what I’m doing.” My response is always the same. A broom will beat out a vacuum cleaner if the Customer lives in a cave with no power….
“The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure:…
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” ? Eleanor Roosevelt “What if …?” is the first step to getting where you want to be. Sometimes, the solution will be as simple as the story about the…
People talk about the benefits of an open-door policy. Not everyone takes advantage of all the benefits, Traffic flows two ways through a door. Let them in. Get out on the shop floor. Get out of the building. LET THEM INMake sure employees know they can come to you with ideas and concerns. At one…
First, rather than go with the trend to continuously elongate acronyms, I’ll stick with JEDI for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. It’s beyond me how Belonging and Accessibility are not part of Equity and Inclusion. Besides, I like the “power” of the term JEDI. I can already see you waving your politically correct light saber…
“I thought you were my friend. I’ve already had a stroke on the job and now you’re trying to kill me.” It wasn’t the reaction I expected when I brought Tommy the wonderful news that he was getting a computer and access to the inventory system. I was there as a consultant, making continuous improvement…