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At the suggestion of multiple readers, I would like to take a deeper look into maintenance, especially total productive maintenance (TPM). Maintaining your machines and tools is important for your business. In many places, maintenance seems to be more reactive: if it breaks, fix it. Often, a better approach would be proactive maintenance: maintain it ... Read more
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So begins the Old Testament, which Canadian scholar Northrop Fry called The Great Code, the blue-print for Western culture.
Indeed, language reflects how we think, how we experience life, and who we are.
What's this got to do with strategy & strategy deployment?
Strategy is story-telling, strategy is language.
But what if our language is foggy? What's a team to make of head-scratchers like the following?
"We will leverage our World Class Operating Capabilities” or “We'll reshape pricing tactics to effectively manage demand while sustaining market access.”
My advice, head for the hills!
Sorry, but such language often means the team is clueless.
"We really don't understand what's happening, so let's slather on the buzzwords!"
I spend much of my time coaching senior leaders. My advice to them?
Ban fuzzy words & phrases!
Out with cliché! Down with the latest buzzwords!
Sayonara to 'leverage,' 'synergy,' 'disintermediation,' and 'robust' -- (to pick just a few).
PLAIN LANGUAGE, PLEASE!
We were lucky at our old Toyota plant.
Our Japanese senseis' grasp of English was very basic, which meant we had to express ourselves clearly & simply.
As a result, despite the language barrier, we communicated beautifully.
Best,
Pascal
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My guest for Episode #401 is my friend Jim Benson, who you might know as the co-author of the book Personal Kanban (and we talked about that in Episode 155, back in 2012). He was also a guest on Episode #4 of “My Favorite Mistake” with me. We recorded this using the LinkedIn Live platform. […]
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The past two weeks, I've been part of an initiative that's like a social-benefit startup effort within a startup. It's a free platform called VacciNexus that connects healthcare professionals who are engaged in process improvements related to Covid-19 vaccinations. I've blogged about it on on the websites of the two main partners in this effort, […]
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A minimum level in a supermarket gives you a warning that a stock out is imminent. Hopefully it also gives you enough time to prevent such a stock out, even though this may result in firefighting. In my last post I talked on how to use a minimum level. This post will look at how ... Read more
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