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I often hear people say “I don’t have the time” or “I’ll get to that later when I have time”. H. Jackson Brown Jr. said ““Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours […]
January 26, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Management
Ever hear someone say “once this whatever is over, things will relax & we can put more focus on whatever” – you can insert all manner of things into either “whatever” in that phrase. I hear it all the time […]
January 19, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Management, Solving Problems, Standards
I’ve written before on leadership and challenging others. Last time was about having the courage to challenge anyone when things are not right. Today I write about challenging peers. I remember once when I was the Materials, Planning & Logistics Manager […]
January 12, 2016 - (0) comments - Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Management, Standards
Since it is the beginning of another year, why not start out with a blog topic chosen by so many others. As far back as the Babylonians people have been making resolutions at the start of the New Year. I’d like […]
January 05, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Leadership, Learning, Uncategorized
I’ve had a few discussions recently regarding the need to visualise something if we know/are aware of the status, especially for short-term events. Why write it on a white board just in case somebody pops by and is interested? What […]
October 01, 2015 - (0) comments - Communication, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Make Problems Obvious, Standards, Visual Management
In dynamic organisations the leaders role is to coach their people to develop systems that make problems obvious, solve problems quickly & thoroughly (to root cause) & to share out the knowledge gained by solving these problems, normally in the […]
December 16, 2014 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership
I wrote last week about making problems obvious and the importance of quick & direct feedback loops to enable rapid problem detection & rectification. Last week I focused on the speed of the feedback, this week we’ll look at the […]
December 09, 2014 - (0) comments - Leadership, Make Problems Obvious, Solving Problems, Visual Management
I’ve written a few times about using visualisation to make problems obvious. Most people understand the thinking behind that & I have few issues when I discuss this with people. However, I have had many occasions where the gathering of […]
December 03, 2014 - (0) comments - Learning, Make Problems Obvious, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized, Visual Management
Anyone who has worked in Lean or anywhere near it will be familiar with the seven wastes; Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Over-production, Over-processing & Defects (TIMWOOD). One of the things that I see people forget or ignore is the fact […]
November 25, 2014 - (0) comments - Change, Lean, Systems Thinking, Waste
Several discussions over the last few days have centred around standards and more specifically, enforcing them. One of the issues that is repeatedly discussed is to what extent. There are all sorts of standards that exist in any organisation. Most […]
November 18, 2014 - (0) comments - Leadership, Make Problems Obvious, Standards, Workplace Organisation
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