Over the next several weeks, we’ll be taking a tour through the Shingo Model and how it might prove to be a valuable resource for……
It’s easy to put your face to the grindstone. I’m not even talking about your nose – because people like us do everything we do……
In my work, I often come across entrepreneurs or creatives who have avoided processes for a long time on purpose. It’s not an accident this……
“A well-understood problem is half-solved,” said the brilliant Charles Kettering or John Dewey. This quote has been attributed to both thinkers, but I prefer Kettering……
In Continuous Improvement (and lots of other places), we talk about failure a lot. We talk about failing fast, failing often, failing forward, failing, failing,…
Anyone feel overstimulated? Anyone feel like you simply have way too many things clamoring for your immediate attention to bother with noticing something else? I…
Here’s the tricky thing about blind corners: you typically can’t see around them until you’re right there, making that turn, getting around it, and taking……
Have you ever spent a lot of time in the throes of pain and difficulty, dealing with problem after problem only to discover at some……
Have you ever stepped back to consider not what you’re thinking, but how you’re thinking about it? How we think has a great impact on……
I LOVE this quote from Shigeo Shingo, author of The Shingo Model for Operational Excellence. I love it because it stops me in my tracks……