An email to my staff about alignment
This email is not addressing a current problem. I simply want to make sure everyone understands the importance of working through your teammates and not around them. As we grow and become a more...
View ArticleHeatcraft Tifton Georgia
Thanks to the folks at Heatcraft in Tifton, Georgia, for spending some time with me. They have a design/build to customer specification manufacturing process that operates at a very good cycle time....
View ArticleCollision Repair Shop Cycle Time Bandits
Cycle Time Bandits Where are the cycle time bandits in your business? This key question becomes the starting point for streamlining your business and increasing profits. Before you can accurately...
View ArticleTeamwork
My great grandfather had a team of mules he used for farming. He was the envy of the other farmers in the area because, as I learned, it is difficult to get mules work together as a team. Just because...
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Employee Engagement
Engagement is about respect. I can tell you from experience that someone from outside a business can come in and see internal engagement problems in less than a day. It is all about respect, which is...
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Seeing the Big Picture
Be aware of how much of the “Big Picture” you and your direct reports see. A common mistake in organizations trying to improve is the assumption that everyone gets it. The diagram below shows how our...
View ArticleContinuous Improvement, Working Without a Safety Net
What gets in the way of improvement? Stated differently, what gets in the way of on-going success? Understand that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. I believe the answer is related to our...
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Building an Elite Operations Function
One of the first things I look at when hired as an operations consultant is whether managers are managing people or processes. Successful, growing companies spend 80-90% of their “managerial” time...
View ArticleGreat Teams
Getting the most out of yourself and others. Perspective is nearly everything when it comes to accelerating your performance, or someone else’s. Human motivation is more art than science. No matter...
View ArticleManaging Innovative Businesses
Engineers want to build things and scientists want to understand things. It takes both to successfully innovate. The ability to dream a concept and build it into reality requires both a drive to...
View ArticleHigh Performance Work Group Manifesto
High Performance Work Group Manifesto: Reject the “Box”. We do not want to be categorized into anything normal or stationary. Do not seek what is easy or comfortable. We value problems, roadblocks and...
View ArticleThe Reverse of Business Intelligence
We don’t know what we don’t know. We can’t do what we don’t know. We won’t know until we measure. We don’t measure what we don’t value. What we don’t measure we don’t do. We don’t value what we don’t...
View ArticleInnovation and Creativity in Motion
Many of the activities and strategies we use to innovate and manage are actually road blocks to creativity and innovation. Certainly, the enforcement of a time line and being cost conscience, are...
View ArticleBuilding New Skills
Much of our frustration with personal development comes from our failure to establish short term goals. This frustration springs from a failure to understand that the learning and development of...
View ArticleBuilding Great Teams
I did some research on team building recently. What I found were lists of qualities that define effective teams. The problem is that these lists are typically filled with descriptions of...
View ArticleForward Thinking
It is not enough to just innovate around a tried and true point of reference. To survive and thrive you must be willing create a “new” tried and true point of reference, continuously, and in real time...
View ArticleEntrepreneur Life
Entrepreneur Life by Walter McIntyre For the most part, all of us have a robust fear of failure. We are good at counting the cost of trying and failing. We are also pretty much aware of what we don’t...
View ArticleEstimating Project Timelines
Statistically Estimating Project Timelines by Walter McIntyre Statistics Why is it that projects more often than not come in behind schedule and over budget? This question drives business executives...
View Article“I See You” Management
“I See You” Management, by Walter McIntyre Connectivity between human beings is the beginning of synergy. It is written in our genetic code and expresses itself in our drive to connect to others and...
View ArticleLean Value Proposition
Lean Value Proposition by Walter McIntyre The basic Lean and business value proposition in looks like this: Profit = Perceived Value – Inherent Value Lean process improvement projects address the...
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