Lean Manufacturing Blog » Archive for March 2009
Do you listen to motivational audiotapes?
Jose asked: Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of these motivational tapes related to business: marketing, sales, conversational skills and other success-oriented topics. Among the popular speakers I listen to while driving are Robert Kiyosaki, Brian Tracy and Anthony Robbins. Am I the only one hooked on this? Do you guys find these motivational speakers worthwhile? Any recommendations you can give me? Oh.. FYI — I download their stuff on Morpheus … Read entire article »
Filed under: Motivation
How can a strategic planning session be made “fun”?
kay asked: Help! I have 1 month for my small healthcare business to do our 3 year strategic planning session. We have about 30 people, and like all to participate. We’re a fun-loving group, but a bunch of smart people, though not necessarily business minded. Any ideas or resources to make it more interactive? Get all involved? Have the best results of a plan at the end of the day? … Read entire article »
Filed under: Strategic Planning
Do you know any good quotes from the Bible about goals and goal setting?
Morgan asked: I am putting together a PowerPoint about the types of goals in life and the major emphasis is on spiritual goals, of course. I need some scripture to put in my slide, though. The types of goals are: Physical Mental Social Family Financial Spiritual Professional & Career Hobbies or Special Interest God bless! Natural Remedies For Cholesterol Related Blogs Related Blogs on Goals In Life 2009 Goals « 24/7 Life Ellen Thinks About Life And Setting Goals | HairBoutique.com Blog Self Improvement & Life Coaching Is Very Important … Read entire article »
Filed under: Goal Setting
Student Leadership reading material?
yeppimajedi asked: I need to know if there are any books, magazines, or journals out there (Author, Title, Year, Publisher) that talk about the following topics (College) Student Leadership Development (College) Student Development Outcome (College) Student Learning Outcomes Basically just College Leadership. The Three books I already have are Learning Reconsidered, Involving Colleges, and Leadership Challange. If you could provide a link to a review, or write on of your own, I would appreciate that so much. Thank you in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Leadership
Lean Manufacturing Podcasts
With the majority of my time being spent on making Lean videos for my Youtube channel, I have not had the time to make any of the podcasts I have been mentioning. I may get back around to it. But, I am just not sure yet. If you still want the information, just in a video format, you can visit my youtube channel, which will have all of the audio for the topics you might be … Read entire article »
Filed under: Lean Manufacturing
Top 10 Human Errors in Manufacturing
I put together a list of the top 10 human errors on manufacturing. Here they are: Delaying Judgement – Slowness Misunderstanding – lack of being familiar with the process Forgetfulness Intentional – deliberate Disregarding the rules Lack of instructions, or the wrong instructions Inexperienced personnel Inadvertent Errors due to abnormal conditions – surprise Misreading visual signs – Identification Feel free to add to the list if you can think of anything else … Read entire article »
Filed under: Lean Manufacturing
Manufacturing inefficiency
… More: Manufacturing inefficiency Related Blogs Related Blogs on manufacturing Manufacture This » Blog Archive » The Cost of Lost Manufacturing Clean Break » Blog Archive » Everbrite Solar to build 150MW thin … Related Blogs on study Related Blogs on Success The Real Secret To Success … Read entire article »
Filed under: Leadership, Lean Manufacturing, Success
Toyota Quality and the KISS Principle « Pyzdek Institute
If you’ve ever read The Toyota Way, or even Taiichi Ohno’s book Toyota Production system you’ll be immediately struck by one observation: quality is s. More here: Toyota Quality and the KISS Principle « Pyzdek Institute … Read entire article »
Filed under: Leadership, Six Sigma, Strategic Planning
Evolving Excellence: 5 Questions – Meet Pete Abilla
That was my first initiation to the Toyota Production System and I have been a student ever since. 3 Go here to read the rest: Evolving Excellence: 5 Questions – Meet Pete Abilla … Read entire article »
Filed under: Leadership, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Strategic Planning
Hostages to waste – but what is the biggest waste of all?
It is indeed, I believe, only through this liberation of human potential that a lean production system can successfully operate. When Ford created his mass production system , its critics berated the stress it created for the workers Read the original here: Hostages to waste – but what is the biggest waste of all? … Read entire article »
Filed under: Leadership, Success
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