{"id":5749,"date":"2022-08-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2022-08-02T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:11:21","slug":"education-does-not-mean-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/education-does-not-mean-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Does Not Mean Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Lots of people have been educated in Lean Six Sigma, but some can&#8217;t use the methods and tools to solve problems. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/704202285?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, I worked at Bell Laboratories in the mid-70s, and I was the little representative from one of the Bell operating companies: U.S West. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qwest_Corporation#Mountain_Bell\">Mountain Bell<\/a> at that time, I guess&#8230; That&#8217;s true!<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Anyway, I was out there and boy, I\u2019ll tell you: we had people with master&#8217;s degrees and PhD degrees. One of the things that I discovered when I was there is that education does not mean production. Right? There were people that were very educated and were very good at school but couldn&#8217;t find a way to write a line of code that worked with all the with all the help in the world. We had one guy with a high school education that coded circles around everybody, including me.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So, this [is what] I want you to think about: education is great, [but] unfortunately sometimes people that are good at education are not good at getting stuff done. Sometimes people who are good at getting stuff done are not &#8220;formally educated,&#8221; but they are educated through the things they have done. I think if you&#8217;re hiring somebody who&#8217;s a Green Belt or a Black Belt, you should ask them, \u201cWhat kind of projects have you done? Tell me about that.&#8221; I don&#8217;t care who trained you, I care about what you&#8217;ve gotten done. What are your projects? Have you saved money? Have you saved time? Have you saved lives? Yeah? Cool! Tell me about that. If they can&#8217;t answer that question, then they&#8217;ve been educated but they don&#8217;t know how to do the [work].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Even me, when I when I took my first training, it took me about a year and a half to connect all the dots and figure out how to make the system work with telephone data. It just took me a long time to figure that out, but once I did\u2026 boy, I was like a chainsaw going through that place. If I could have stayed longer, I\u2019d probably chainsawed more things, because there was a lot of stuff to fix.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;All right, so that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Learn stuff but apply it. That is the magical essence of what this is all about. Let&#8217;s create a hassle-free America; hassle-free healthcare. 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