What Your Father Can Teach You About Lean
TAGS: augusta national golf club | blitz | cars | consulting | directions | education | fathers day | free throw | golf | happy fathers day | lean | lean consulting | operations | process | rework | spark plugs | sports | time | training Happy Fathers Day to all of the dads, grandpas, great-grandpas, uncles, and dads soon-to-be out there. Fathers Day has evolved a little bit into a day of phone calls, golf, …Continue reading →
ASQ Influential Voices: The Value of Appropriate Training
TAGS: asq | audit | augusta greenjackets | concessions | consulting | customer | customers | expectations | influential voices | lean | lean blitz | learning | manager | measure | operations | paul borawski | process | quality | sports | training In August, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski penned his thoughts about companies providing training around quality, using data from the Global State of Quality survey to show that companies with centralized …Continue reading →
The Masters: Mowing the Fairways
TAGS: 2012 | angc | augusta | blade | blitz | bubba watson | cart | club | communication | cut | fairway | golf | grass | hydraulic | leak | lean | maintenance | masters | mow | mower | national | operations | patron | practice | process | sharpen | six sigma | tennis ball | tractor | training When the patrons begin leaving Augusta National Golf Club during the week of the Masters and when the final groups of golfers finish up their rounds or work at the …Continue reading →
Chicago Cubs and Correcting Mistakes Immediately
TAGS: accountability | accountable | blitz | chicago | communication | correct | cubs | dave | footwork | lean | mental | mistakes | operations | positioning | principle | process | six sigma | spring | strategy | sveum | technique | toyota | training | way | world series New manager Dave Sveum has brought a “new philosophy” to the Chicago Cubs this year in spring training – correcting mistakes immediately, greater accountability, and working to get it right …Continue reading →