{"id":5789,"date":"2022-07-26T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2022-07-26T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:12:42","slug":"old-habits-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/old-habits-die-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Habits Die Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ever caught yourself doing something from habit that makes no sense anymore? Here&#8217;s how it applies to Lean Six Sigma:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/714506402?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;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Last week I went out to eat breakfast and I ordered two eggs over medium with some hash browns. When my eggs showed up, I cut them up with a knife and a fork and then I sat there and I mashed the eggs into kind of like a scramble. I thought, \u201cOh my gosh, that&#8217;s how my dad always ate his eggs.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;He would cut them up and then mash them down and turn them into kind of a scramble made from over medium eggs. I thought, \u201cOh my god, I\u2019m still doing the same thing my father did.\u201d Do you have to mash them up to be able to eat? No, it&#8217;s an extra step. I looked at that and I thought, \u201cOh my gosh, I\u2019ve been doing that for 50, 60 years now.\u201d Right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;And so I want you to think about [that]: Are there things in Quality Improvement or in your life where you&#8217;re still doing things the way somebody taught you, and the way they taught you is slow and dumb and has extra steps in it? Why are we teaching two and four-week belt trainings when we could start getting results in a day or two? Teach people and figure out who&#8217;s really smart enough and has the aptitude and the passion to go on into Green and Black Belt training? That&#8217;s what I propose in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\">Agile Process Innovation book<\/a>, which you can download for free off the website. Go out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/free-resources\/agile-lean-six-sigma\/\">www.qimacros.com\/agile<\/a>, scroll down to the bottom, and you can download the book for free.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s start questioning the stupid stuff we learned along the way, and let&#8217;s create a hassle-free America; hassle-free healthcare. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever caught yourself doing something from habit that makes no sense anymore? Here&rsquo;s how it applies to Lean Six Sigma: &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;Last week I went out to eat breakfast and I ordered two eggs over medium with some hash browns. 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