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Is Your Company ‘Doing’ Lean or ‘Being’ Lean?

Strategy Driven

But as you become more experienced with Lean, you realize that what you can’t see is what separates world-class operations from mediocre ones. We first stopped at their Gemba board, which contained all of the plant’s operating metrics and value stream information. The $13 Billion Case Study. Misspent TAKT time. Outdated standard work.

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

Almost every world-class, high-performance organization takes training and education seriously. Their dedication to relentless training and intensive preparation, however, is utterly alien to the overwhelming majority of businesses and professional enterprises worldwide. That’s why we train so hard.”

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Innovative Companies Copy

Mike Cardus

Innovative Internet Retailing Business: Perhaps not as regulated as healthcare and still there are Goals, Roles, Procedures that exist either explicitly they are part of a training manual, shared understood, known to the employee. Or implicitly Not documented although exist as part of the unspoken rules and norms of the organization.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities. billion in its associates through higher wages, better benefits and enhanced training.

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Why Best Practices Haven't Fixed Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. The only reasonable explanation for this disparity between effort and outcome is that health care leaders are not investing in the right operational changes to achieve excellence in safety, affordability, and capacity.