Daily Tip #1: 75 percent of all process improvement efforts fail because of the lack of true management support
Daily Tip #2: 75 percent of all process improvement efforts fail because of the lack of employee engagement
Daily Tip #3: 75 percent of all process improvement efforts fail because of the fear of the unknown
Daily Tip #4: 75 percent of all process improvement efforts fail because the indicated solutions are not the way we do things in the organization
Daily Tip #5: 75 percent of all process improvement efforts fail because not everyone is on board with the new normal
Daily Tip #6: 75 percent of all process improvement efforts fail because of the lack of cross-functional teams
Daily Tip #7: All too often the expectations of the organizations are that our employees are pushed or channeled into a rut
Daily Tip #8: Any realistic vision of change must be based on the empowerment of people
Daily Tip #9: Are you a dictator or a coach? Understand your new role in the organization
Daily Tip #10: Are you doing things because that is the way you have always done it?
Daily Tip #11: Are you the critical HR leader in your organization, if not why not?
Daily Tip # 12: Are you asking every day How does this {process, procedure, action, initiative, project, policy} help the organization achieve its business objective?
Daily Tip #13: Are your customer’s part of your improvement process? if not why not?
Daily Tip # 14: Attached to choices are consequences, choose wisely
Daily Tip #15: Behavior is the mirror that shows our image
Daily Tip #16: Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding – Proverbs
Daily Tip #17: Change management without culture change is not change management
Daily Tip #18: Clients don’t hire you because you are balanced. They hire you because you are extraordinary in some way.
Daily Tip #19: Continual process improvement creates a new normal for the organization
Daily Tip #20: Critical to project success is the removal of the fear of trying
Daily Tip #21: Discourage turf wars in your organization. The organization loses. The human Capital assets lose. The customers lose.
Daily Tip #22: Do you feel the problem facing your organization?
Daily Tip #23: Don’t be a problem solver, become a solution seeker – Dr. Mikel Harry
Daily Tip #24: If we don’t question, we won’t search – Dr. Mikel Harry
Daily Tip #25: We don’t know until we search – Dr. Mikel Harry
Daily Tip #26: We can’t act on what we don’t know – Dr. Mikel Harry
Daily Tip #27: In producing evidence-based solutions they are meaningless if we don’t measure, we won’t question
Daily Tip #28: Empowerment is the DNA of sustainable change management in your organization
Daily Tip #29: Encourage human capital asset ownership of the processes
Daily Tip #30: Every process has its hiccups, finding them is the hard part because we don’t look for them
Daily Tip #31: Focus on the process, people are not your problem
Daily Tip #32: For successful improvement efforts encourage the existence and operation of cross-functional teams – Steve Jobs
Daily Tip #33: Frustrated with that job description, ask your customers to write it for you. They know better than you what makes a great employee in your organization.
Daily Tip #34: Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Daily Tip #35: HR Excellence requires caring more for your organization than others think wise.
Daily Tip #36: HR Excellence requires dreaming more than others think practical about the potential for your organization
Daily Tip #37: HR Excellence requires expecting more from your human capital assets than other people do.
Daily Tip #38: HR Excellence requires risking more for your organization than others think safe to change the corporate culture
Daily Tip #39: HR is a system. It contains inputs, processes and outputs and an environment that it functions in.
Daily Tip #40: HR is not immune from the organizational changes
Daily Tip #41: Have you asked the 5 Whys re: your organization?
Daily Tip #42: Hold on to instruction, do not let it go, guard it well because it is your life – Richard Feynman
Daily tip #43: Human Capital assets are non-owned lease corporate assets, treat them based on their importance to your organization – Russ Moen, Express Personnel
Daily Tip #44: I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect no real problem, but I am not sure there’s no real problem- Richard Feynman
Daily Tip #45: I have a dream one day management and our human capital assets will be on same page producing the products and services error free
Daily Tip #46: I have a dream one day we will learn the language of business and that process metrics are there to make us better not hold us back.
Daily Tip #47: I have a dream one day organizations will understand the quick buck is not the solution to organizational sustainability
Daily Tip #48: I have a dream that one day our businesses will understand what quality means and practice it everyday
Daily Tip #49: If push came to shove could you do your peer’s job if they were not present?
Daily Tip #50: If we look at organizational problems with bias glasses on, it smells like a rose but is not a rose – Martin Luther King
Daily Tip #51: If you know what the goal is & you know what critical success factors = success, you know what has to be present to reach that level.
Daily Tip #52: Innovation does not have to be about creating the light bulb or the telegraph. Innovation can be very important small changes to something that is already working. That is the stuff that is overlooked, and it can take things to the next level. – David Steinberg
Daily Tip #53 – If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Dr >Martin Luther King Jr.
Daily Tip #54 – Improvement based in complacency is false improvement
Daily Tip #55 – In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist
Daily Tip #56 – Innovation can be very important small changes to something that is already working.
Daily Tip #57 – Innovation consists of looking at what everyone else is looking at but seeing what no one else sees
Daily Tip #58 – Innovation & process improvement are very much compatible. Think small steps, not large steps- Jack Welch
Daily Tip #59 – It is not about reducing headcount, it is about reducing waste – Jack Welch
Daily Tip #60 – If the organization sees that quality is a 2nd-class item to the management, it will become a 2nd-class item to the employees too.
Daily Tip #61 – It is more critical to successful HR that we understand why rather than when. – Ed Catmull
Daily Tip #62 – It needs to become part of the corporate culture that there is no such thing as it is not my job
Daily Tip #63 – Six Sigma focused on how to make the customer more competitive
Daily Tip #64 – Process Improvement begins outside the business (Dept.)
Daily Tip #65 – Lack of employee response directly related to management empty words
Daily Tip #66 – Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are the inevitable consequence of doing something new – George Bernard Shaw
Daily Tip #67- My momma done told me to keep trying. You need to also keep trying if at first you don’t succeed. – Tony Alessandra
Daily Tip #68 – Need new talent? Are you ruling candidates in or out?
Daily Tip #69 – You need to obtain the ability to understand the flow through the entire organization
Daily Tip #70 – Non-value-added activities serve no customer demands
Daily Tip #71 – People who say it can’t be done should not interrupt those who are doing it
Daily Tip #72 – Our responsibility is to acquire and maintain customers by meeting their needs
Daily Tip #73 – Process improvement does not happen overnight.
Daily Tip #74 – Process Improvement is a Process it is not a program or a Dept
Daily Tip #75 – Process improvement is both top down and bottom up simultaneously
Daily Tip #76 – Quotas are a fortress against improvement of quality and productivity
Daily Tip #77 – Ready to empower change in your organization? Make it the corporate mantra.
Daily Tip #78 – Removal of waste in our processes makes the organization more sustainable
Daily Tip #79 – Silos are the bane of your existence – Peter Drucker
Daily Tip #80 – Stakeholder vs. Shareholder? Time for a new perspective
Daily Tip #81 – Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations. – Tachii Ohno
Daily Tip #82 – Technology helping or hindering your metrics creation in HR?
Daily Tip #83 – Having no problems is the biggest problem of all – Tachii Ohno
Daily Tip #84 – Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month’s manual should be out of date – Tachii Ohno
Daily Tip #85 – No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training – Tachii Ohno
Daily Tip #86 – The achievement of an organization are the results of the combined efforts of each individual
Daily Tip #87 – The end result of identifying a problem is how we go about resolving the issue.
Daily Tip #88 – The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question
Daily Tip #89 – The move from jobs to projects requires cross-functional teams
Daily Tip #90 – The organizational experts are your frontline people
Daily Tip #91 – The past is the past and what is important is the current condition and what we will do next to go beyond where we are today.
Daily Tip #92 – The success of continuous process improvement efforts centered around 3 pillars- Customers, culture and Quality improvement
Daily Tip #93 – TLS Continuum is a strategic approach to implementing quality improvement through careful review
Daily Tip #94 – To be a true strategic partner in HR you must learn the language of business
Daily Tip #95 – Truth in Brand -Our messages are aligned with the correct strategic initiatives
Daily Tip #96 – Truth in Brand – The Correct Message
Daily Tip #97 – Truth in Brand – Our messages are aligned with the goal of being the best place to work
Daily Tip #98 – Truth in Brand – Our messages are centered on the importance of the customer to the organization
Daily Tip #99 – Try and lend a hand, not point a finger
Daily Tip #100 – Understand how one internal process feeds the next one
Daily Tip #101 – Voice of the customer is paramount to success
Daily Tip #102 – Want to learn what is going on in your organization take an employee to lunch
Daily Tip #103 – Waste is the silent corporate killer
Daily Tip #104 – We exist to meet the needs of our customers
Daily Tip #105 – We need to be speaking each other’s business languages
Daily Tip #106 – We must recognize the worth of everyone involved in the organizational processes
Daily Tip #107 – What would it take for your to be the organizational super hero? – John Lennon
Daily Tip #108 – When we discover that the organization has some problems how we resolve the issue is not the desired end result.
Daily Tip #109 – Who in your organization really matters – the people – W. Edward Deming
Daily Tip #110 – Why bake only a third of the pie? Use every tool at your disposal, not just one
Daily Tip #111- You are perceived as being a commodity or a mediocre part of the organization if you don’t speak the language of business. – W. Edward Deming
Daily Tip #112 – You are empowered to bring about change in your organization. Believe it!! – W. Edward Deming
Daily Tip #113 – The Future will be won by those who can spread their ideas better, faster, and more durable – Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
Daily Tip #114 – You might say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as One.- John Lennon
Daily Tip #115 – You can’t see the picture, if you are inside the frame
Daily Tip #116 – Your main responsibility is to seek solutions, not solve problems – Aristotle
Daily Tip #117 – Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place. – Henry Ford
Daily Tip #118 – The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people – W Edward Deming
Daily Tip #119 – The greatest waste in America is failure to use the abilities of people – W. Edward Deming
Daily Tip #120 – A company cannot buy its way into quality – Phillip Crosby
Daily Tip #121 – Putting out fires is not improvement of the process- Joe Vitale
Daily Tip #122 – The main difference between service and manufacturing is that the service department doesn’t know they have a product. – Winston Churchill
Daily Tip #123 – Quality is not an act it is a habit- Wayne Dyer
Daily Tip #124 – Quality means doing it right when nobody is looking.- Deepak Chopra
Daily Tip #125 – Quality is everyone’s responsibility – W. Edward Deming
Daily Tip #126 – Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric – Philip Crosby
Daily Tip #127 – A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.- Joe Vitale
Daily Tip #128 – To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often – William James
Daily Tip #129 – Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer
Daily Tip #130 – Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future – Deepak Chopra
Daily Tip # 131 – Leader’s who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say
Daily Tip #132 – When I dream alone it is a dream, but when we dream together it is the beginning of reality – Yoko Ono
Daily Tip #133 – The world is a better place because of those who refuse to believe they cannot fly
Daily Tip #134 – Anyone can slay a dragon he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world, that takes a real hero – seen on a retail store wall
Daily Tip #135 – We are not victims of the world we see; we are victims of the way we see the world – Shirley McClaine
Daily Tip #136 – Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better- Samuel Beckett
Daily Tip #137 – How you view the world is how you walk through theworld – Henry Winkler
Daily Tip # 138 – No one way to Get What you want – Henry Winkler
Daily Tip #139 – They do not hire yo to fill time and space, they hire you to fill your imagination. – Henry Winkler
Daily Tip #140 – Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens – and when it happens, it lasts.- John Wooden
Daily Tip #141 – Learn to change your organization by presuming that you can
Daily Tip #142 – Thompson’s Law- Anything that can go wrong already has, you just don’t know it
Daily Tip #143 – The more complex the problem, the simpler the solution must be, or it will not work – H.L.Mencken
Daily Tip #144 – If you see obstacles as obstacles you won’t get through them, if you see them as a path forward that is your path. – Amy Klobuchar
Daily Tip #145 – Our most innovative thinking often stems from questioning the underlying rules we’d always assumed to be absolute.
Daily Tip #146 – You have to have the courage to do what you think is right
Daily Tip #147 – Empowerment= Engagement x Teams x Process Ownership
Daily Tip #148 – Continuous Process Improvement = Management Style x Empowerment x Teams
Daily Tip #149 – Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day – Brian Tracy
Daily Tip #150 – Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. – Mark Twain
Daily Tip #151 – A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better – Jim Rohn
Daily Tip #152 – The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company — Masaaki Imai
Daily Tip #153 – Be the change you want to see.
Daily Tip #154 – An act of leadership is to say that whatever’s happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don’t have that, then you don’t have the catalyst for continuous improvement- David Anderson
Daily Tip #155- If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. – W. Edward Deming
Daily Tip #156 – The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. – Shigeo Shingo
Daily Tip #157 – All we are doing is looking at the timeline from the moment a customer gives us an order to the point we collect the cash. And we are reducing that timeline in the value stream by removing non value-added wastes.”- Tachii Ohno
Daily Tip #158 – If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. – Albert Einstein
Daily Tip #159 – “The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”- Helmut Schmidt
Daily Tip # 160 – “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” – James Harrington
Daily Tip #161 – “A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.” – Shigeo Shingo
Daily Tip #162 – If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing. – W. Edward Deming
Daily Tip #163 – I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can’t prove that. And there are no models. – Martin Bower
Daily Tip #164 – Everyone wants to contribute. Trust them. Leaders are everywhere. Find them. Some people are on a mission. Celebrate them. Others wish things were different. Listen to them. Everybody matters. Show them.
Daily Tip #165 – I have not failed, I’ve just
found 10,000 ways that won’t work.- Thomas Edison
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