As Never Before
Occasionally we all need to do what we’ve never done before, what we’ve never even considered before and embrace revolutionary change personally and within our organizations.
Don’t Just Talk About a Skills Gap — Do Something!
You can complain about the skills gap, or you can leverage the 3Es and fix it. Here's how.
Committees and Car Talk
By Alec Pendleton, Big Ideas for Small Companies Consider the modern automobile. From the moment an idea is hatched until the finished product is delivered to a buyer, the process is kind of a miracle. There are, I’m told, about 25,000 parts in a typical car, and every one of them had to go through basically the same process: someone had an idea, and that led to developing specifications, which led to design, then to manufacture, to assembly, to delivery. Starting with a blank sheet of paper, the process can take several years, and at every step along the [...]
Brew It Forward
By George Taninecz I’ve had the pleasure to know and support talented individuals who worked within the corporate and operations brain trust of Toyota, were guided by Toyota legends, emulated the practices of Toyota in their own companies, and/or devoted distinguished careers to studying and communicating Toyota concepts. One common denominator of continuous improvement appears in all of their work — a perpetual cycle of coaching and mentoring that over time creates a culture of problem solvers and change makers who seek to better themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations. Although I have never worked at Toyota — or, [...]