December 2012 - Page 2 of 2

No Email Day and Reducing E-mail Waste 0
- In the News
- December 13, 2012
Yesterday was No Email Day, a campaign to encourage people to stop using email for 24 hours for greater productivity and to realize how email has become abused/overused. The organizers would like you to do something more productive with the time saved from no email. This could simply involve other forms of communication like actually
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How do you Define Quality Success?0
- ASQ's Influential Voices, Quality
- December 12, 2012
This month in Paul Borawski’s post on ASQ with the back drop of the annual salary survey he asks what’s your case for a raise. If you accept the premise that you get paid what you’re worth (and it’s not always true) I wonder what you’d tell your boss you did in the last year
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #40 0
- Lean Tips
- December 11, 2012
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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Defining Problems SMART-ly 0
- Lean in Practice
- December 10, 2012
Accurate problem statements save time and effort by focusing the team on root cause identification. A well-stated problem statement is a clear and concise statement that describes the symptoms of the problem to be addressed. It speeds a robust corrective action process by identifying potential root causes and eliminating bias and noise. Unfortunately, many don’t
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Lean Quote: Empowerment Unlocks Hidden Potential 0
- Lean Quote
- December 7, 2012
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Top 10 Principles of Employee Empowerment 0
- Culture, Leadership
- December 5, 2012
Many use the term empowerment without understanding what it really means. A common understanding of empowerment is necessary, however, to allow us to know empowerment when we see it. Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. So
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