Living Exponentially
The job description of the future doesn’t involve manual labor or basic thinking skills. The future will challenge all of us. Here’s why.
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Accelerating Lean Six Sigma Exponentially
At the ASQ Lean Six Sigma Conference in Phoenix, they said that the world is accelerating exponentially. Is Lean Six Sigma accelerating exponentially? If we use Agile methods to accelerate Lean Six Sigma, we can move Lean Six Sigma into the 21st century.
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Lean Six Sigma Meets the Blah Blahmeter
Is the foggy complexity of Lean Six Sigma preventing widespread adoption? I think it is:
Making Process Improvements Stick
The Nov-Dec 2018 HBR reports that Lean, Six Sigma and Agile “always work well initially, but often the gains fade quickly.”
- 21% of improvement projects failed to yield any improvements
- Only one-third of improvements continued to yield results after two years.
What’s needed to sustain improvements?
- Consistent measurement and monitoring (i.e., control charts)
- Leadership support and coaching
- Avoid initiative fatigue caused by jumping from one improvement initiative to another.
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Great Training Robbery
Consultants, trainers and professors are wasting students’ time on things they don’t need to know to solve problems they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.
Every Day Should Be World Quality Day
Let’s create a Hassle Free America and a Hassle Free World
The One Thing
In the movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some advice that applies to Lean Six Sigma. Do you know what it is?
Have Your Processes Turned Into Frankenprocesses?
Here’s how to deal with the creature you’ve created.
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Building Rapport with Improvement Teams – Step 3
A district level manager was hopping mad about something. I decided to see if I could use pacing and leading to calm her down and get back to solving the problem to meet her needs.
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Building Rapport with Improvement Teams – Step 2
My boss sent me to talk to a cranky manager about a software project he wanted to do. Here’s how I used non-verbal rapport to connect with him in 30-60 seconds.
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