Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. (W. Edwards Deming)
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The greatest waste in America is the failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make (W.Edwards Deming)
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job (W. Edwards Deming)
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quality control departments have taken the job of quality away from the people that can contribute most to quality—management, supervisors, managers of purchasing, and production workers. (W. Edwards Deming)
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Manage the cause, not the result. (W.Edwards Deming)
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best (W. Edwards Deming)
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In God we trust; all others bring data. (W. Edwards Deming)
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Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of machine-time, all of which raise the manufacturer’s cost and price that the purchaser (W.Edwards Deming)
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The ideal conditions for making things are created when machines, facilities, and people work together to add value without generating any waste (Kiichiro Toyoda)
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Who in your organization really matters – the people
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TLS Continuum is a strategic approach to implementing quality improvement through careful review
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Encourage human capital asset ownership of the organizational processes
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Lack of employee response directly related to management empty words
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HR Excellence requires caring more for your organization than others think wise.
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Every process has its hiccups, finding them is the hard part because we don’t look for themEvery process has its hiccups, finding them is the hard part because we don’t look for them
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Attached to choices are consequences, choose wisely
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Are your customer’s part of your improvement process? if not why not?
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Are you asking every day How does this {process, procedure, action, initiative, project, policy} help the organization achieve its business objective?
Change your process map to a journey map- start with the client process before yours
Today’s change maestro’s management tip looks at another view of the continuous process improvement effort in your organization. We need to look at the very essence of the process. One of the initial tools in process improvement s the creation of a process map. It is used to track the various steps in the process […]
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Are you a dictator or a coach? Understand your new role in the organization
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Failure is the seed of success (Karou Ishikawa)
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As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools (Karou Ishikawa)
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In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist. (Karou Ishikawa)
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There will always be a next crisis, we just don’t know what it will be (Sakichi Toyoda) #TLSContinuum
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There will always be a next crisis, we just don’t know what it will be (Sakichi Toyoda)
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“It is in Toyota’s DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.” Is it in yours? (Sakichi Toyoda)
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When a problem occurs, ask “why” five times to try to find the source of the problem.(Sakichi Toyoda)
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Before you say you can’t do something …try it (Sakichi Toyoda)
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For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. (Joseph Juran)
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Quality planning consists of developing the products and processes required to meet customer’s needs (Joseph Juran)
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It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below. (Joseph Juran)
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“Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.” (Joseph Juan)
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“Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.” (Joseph Juran)
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“All improvement happens project by project and in no other way. (Joseph Juran)
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“quality control departments have taken the job of quality away from the people that can contribute most to quality—management, supervisors, managers of purchasing, and production workers.” (W. Edwards Deming)
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“Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.” (Phillip Crosby)
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Why bake only a third of the pie? Use every tool at your disposal, not just one
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Who in your organization really matters – the people (W. Edward Deming)
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.” (Proverbs)
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Big problems are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades (Chip and Dan Heath)
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When considering your future state of a process let your mind look at all the possibilities Hey I get it! In normal circumstances when we are confronted with a problem we rely on our past experiences to find solutions to those problems. In doing so you may very well be cheating your customers. Design thinking […]
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Facing a problem, you can choose to exit, exercise voice or depend on organizational loyalty (Albert Hirschman)
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If you can’t see it and name a problem, you Can’t solve it (Kimberle Crenshaw Columbia Law School) #TLSContinuum
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“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work (Thomas Alva Edison) #TLSContinuum
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Everyone wants to contribute. Trust them. Leaders are everywhere. Find them. Some people are on a mission. Celebrate them. Others wish things were different. Listen to them. Everybody matters. Show them. (Bob Chapman)
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I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can’t prove that. And there are no models. (Martin Bower) #TLSContinuum
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“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” (W. Edwards Deming)
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“A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.” (Shingo)
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“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” (H. James Harrington)
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“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” (James Harrington)