- Travels Along the TLS Continuum Newsletter
Edition 1: Back to the Future (January 7, 2025)
Edition 2: MIrror, MIrror on the Wall (January 14,2025)
Edition 3: The Nature of the Continuum (January 21, 2025)
Edition 4: Give Them Something To Talk About (January 28, 2025)
Edition 5: We Are Family ( February 4, 2025)
Edition 6: Behavior Dynamics and Change Management Part 1 (February 11,2025)
Edition 7: Behavior Dynamics and Change Management Part 2 (February 18, 2025)
Edition 8: Ding Dong Change Management is Dead (February 25, 2025)
Edition 9: Attitudes Towards Change Management (March 4, 2025)
Edition 10: Prophet of Continuous Process Improvement (March 11, 2025)
Edition 11: The Learning Curve Part 1 (March 18, 2025)
Edition 12: The Learning Curve Part 2 (March 25, 2025)
Edition 13: The Travel Roadblocks (April 1, 2025)
Edition 14: For Everything There Is A Season (April 8, 2025)
Edition 15: I am a Starship (April 15, 2025)
Edition 16: Did we go far enough? (April, 22, 2025)
Edition 17: The Convenient Truth (April 29, 2025)
Edition 18: What Are My Boundaries? (May 6, 2025)
Edition 19: The Bottleneck Breakthrough (May 13, 2025)
Edition 20: The Strength in Continuity – TLS Continuum and the ower of the Enduring Chain (May 20, 2025)
Edition 21: Driving Growth – TLS Continuum Prioritizes Revenue Expansion over Cost Reduction (5/27/25)
Edition 22: Driven by Value – TLS Continuum’s unwavering focus on stakeholder’s needs (6/03/25) - Edition 23: Empowering People, Transforming Performance (6/10/25)
- Edition 24: Driving Excellence through Collaboration (6/17/25)
- Edition 25: Maximizing System Throughflow (6/24/25)
- Edition 26: Unlocking Organizational Excellence: The TLS Continuum’s Commitment to Comprehensive Training for Employees and Stakeholders (7/01/25)
- Edition 27: Charting the Course to Excellence: The TLS Continuum’s Roadmap to Sustainable Process Improvement (7/09/25)
TLS Continuum Management Tips
Tip #1 Everyone has opinions about the cause of a problems, but opinions are not facts (Bob Sproull)
Tip #2 When developing a problem statement, view the problem from the object and the object’s defect or fault. (Bob Sproull)
Tip #3 Symptoms are the faults we observe (Bob Sproull)
Tip #4 Problems never occur without reason (Bob Sproull)
Tip #5 Identifying defect-free configurations is important because they help us to eliminate potential causes (Bob Sproull)
Tip #6 Always compare the process or objects with the problem to the processes and objects without the problem (Bob Sproull)
Tip #7 Whenever possible, test to eliminate potential root causes (Bob Sproull)
Tip #8 Problems may have multiple root causes with each producing separate symptoms (Bob Sproull)
Tip #9 People will avoid problem-solving opportunities if they lack problem-solving skills, haven't solved problems in the past, aren't recognized and appreciated when they do solve problems or feel threatened by the situation (Bob Sproull)
Tip #10 It's never too late. It's never too soon. Whatever you can do is enough (Christopher Cross)
Tip #11 If you fail, never give up because fail means " first attempt at learning" (From Facebook)
Tip #12 The end is not the END, in fact END is "Effort never dies" (Facebook)
Tip #13 If you get N0 as an answer, remember NO means "next opportunity" (Facebook)
Tip #14 I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship (Louisa Mae Alcott)
Tip #15 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly (Robert F, Kennedy)
Tip #16 The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything (Theodore Roosevelt)
Tip #17 Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground (Theodore Roosevelt)
Tip #18 Successful innovation is only possible as a result of insights from incremental losses along the way (Amy Edmondson)
Tip #19 Good failures are those that bring us valuable information that simply could not have been gathered any other way (Amy Edmondson)
Tip #20 When you put off telling your boss about a problem you convert a potentially solvable issue into a larger, more consequential failure (Amy Edmondson)
Tip #21 The path from failure to success is not a straight line (Amy Edmondson)
Tip #22 Failures are an unavoidable part of progress (Amy Edmondson )
Tip #23: The only people who never make mistakes and never experience failure are those who never try (Dr. Jen Heemstra)
Tip #24: Failure is not something to be ashamed of, it's something to be powered by. Failure is the highest octane fule your life can run on. (Amy Wambach)
Tip #25: Some other eyes will look around, and find things I've never found (Malvina Reynolds)
Tip #26: An organization has integrity when it is whole, consistent and complete, that is when management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense. (Patrick Lencioni)
Tip #27: Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience and Intellectual Capital thatis available to them. (Patrick Lencioni)
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