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Guest Post: The 5 Best Ways To Get Your Employees To Compete 0
- Guest Post
- January 16, 2013
Healthy competition among employees increases productivity and can even boost employee morale, but many companies have a difficult time effectively encouraging their employees to do their best work. Supervisors and managers of the past used to use threatening tactics to obtain high performance levels from employees, but that approach did not often result in the
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Quality: Going Beyond To Bring Value Added Solutions To Customers 0
- ASQ's Influential Voices
- January 15, 2013
It appears my post last month on defining quality success has sparked some discussion from Paul Borawski on defining quality. Paul asks the influential voices of ASQ to define quality. “What do you use as the best, most inclusive, and illuminating definition of quality?” “Quality” means different things to different people. We use the term
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Don’t Blame the Operator, Ask One More Why 0
- Quality, Sharing Best Practices
- January 14, 2013
Operator error is often used in corrective action as a cause of failure. Although operators can make errors, operator error is not an acceptable cause of failure because it is not actionable. It is very often overused by the lazy or those who don’t know any better but human error can almost always be mitigated.
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Lean Quote: Improvement Comes From People Who Feel Secure 0
- Lean Quote
- January 11, 2013
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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Guest Post: A Leaner Me 0
- Guest Post
- January 9, 2013
Today’s post is from a reader and follower of A Lean Journey Blog Kristina Ross, who has recently been on a kaizen kick. She has been learning all about Lean and trying to apply it in her work and life. She asked to share her story with you and as I like to promote learning
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #41 0
- Lean Tips
- January 8, 2013
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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