Entropy and the puzzle
What is your approach to solving a puzzle? I assume it starts with flipping over each cardboard-brown piece to make the patterns face up....
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- Jul 2
- 3 min
The designed route, may not be what is typically taken.
There is an office complex over 100 years old just outside of Chicago. Still occupied, it is an office complex for a leadership team that...
- Jun 21
- 3 min
Be good faster.
What does be good faster mean to you? Since I heard this, I have been stirring on it. Challenging myself with the interpreted wisdom, I...
- Mar 19
- 3 min
Forging with dissent
Do you remember the scene in Animal House when Stork redirects the band during the parade? Under the direction of Marion Wormer, he takes...
- Feb 26
- 5 min
A problem brought to you may not need your help to solve.
My mother, sister, and I were conversing recently through Facetime while sipping on our coffee-flavored coffee of choice. And as mothers...
- Dec 4, 2022
- 6 min
I had missed why I need to vacation
With the end of the year coming, there are a variety of staples that seem to exist year after year in the manufacturing world. We...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
Empowerment sure sounds like the power formula
Within organizations, we routinely hear the notion that we want our organization empowered to make decisions. This could be identified in...
- Sep 11, 2022
- 4 min
Conforming to wrong is wrong
In the 1950s Solomon Asch conducted a social experiment referred to as the Solomon Asch - Conformity Experiment. It was an experiment to...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 4 min
The impact of "when" recognition is given on retention
There are various data points and case studies on the benefits of recognition. Whether it is a form of financial recognition to an entire...
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
"Profit protection" has a good ring about it.
I have heard the argument for years, that connecting an EBIT improvement with overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improvement is...
- Mar 7, 2022
- 4 min
Who is your department's helpline for projects?
My zipper broke on my winter jacket the other day and I was able to contact the manufacturer, work through a claim, and have it repaired....
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
What is operational empathy? Part 2.
Before getting into the definition of operational empathy as a continuation of Part 1, I want to describe a mindset that we realized we...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
What is operational empathy? Part 1.
A decade ago, I was part of a team training Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to a group of middle and upper management. The audience...
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