Shareholder Value: The Long Way is the Short Cut

Every for-profit business exists for the sole purpose of providing shareholder value.

If a shareholder or owner is also responsible for...

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Three Things We Need from Our Boss

We would be happy and successful employees if our managers just did three simple things for us. If we had these three things, we would...

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Do you Know a Sue? A Dive into Supervisor Effectiveness

Sue has been with our company for many years. When she was a machine operator running machine line #25, she demonstrated daily excellence...

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A War on Waste!

We see waste everyday and everywhere. We are so used to seeing it, that we don’t recognize it and it doesn’t even seem to...

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Assessing a Factory: The FINAL FOUR and More

Within an hour, you can assess the success level of a factory. If you are invited to a manufacturing plant for any reason, for example as...

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Loving the PDCA Cycle

Love may be a strong word for a continuous improvement tool, but in this case, it is warranted. So what do I really love about the PDCA...

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How to Enforce your Work Rules

Leaders often ignore it when employees take process shortcuts. They think "no-harm, no-foul". In other words, they think that if the...

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