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“Your mistake does not define who you
are... you are your possibilities.”
-Oprah Winfrey
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“So much of what we call management
consists in making it difficult for people
to work.”
- Peter F. Drucker
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“Whenever there is a product for a
customer, there is a value stream.
The challenge lies in seeing it.”
Learning to See by Rother and Shook
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“Quality is free, however –
the Management Systems that proliferate
it are not .”
– Jay Watson
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“If you forget you have to struggle for
improvement you go backward.”
– Geoffrey Hickson
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"Success often comes to those who
have the aptitude to see way down the
road."
- Laing Burns, Jr.
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“The conventional definition of
management is getting work done
through people, but real management is
developing people through work.”
- Agha Hasan Abedi
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“Think Safety.
See It. Report It. Fix It.”
- Gary Shepherd
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“Almost all quality improvement comes
via simplification of design,
manufacturing... layout, processes, and
procedures.”
- Tom Peters
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“You were born to win, but to be a
winner, you must plan to win, prepare
to win, and expect to win.”
– Zig Zigglar
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“Efficiency is doing things right.
Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
-Zig Zigglar
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“You can talk so much. The proof is
how you compete to the guy next to
you and if a guy makes a mistake,
you've got to be there to pick him up
and not put him down.”
-Anson Carter
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“The point is…
you’d better figure out what your
Customers – the Customers you want –
value. Because that’s what they’ll buy.
Anything else is a waste of their money,
and they’ll figure that out in a hurry.”
– Gordon Bethune
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“Don’t second guess,
think Safety First!”
– Jack Morrow
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"Japanese management practices succeed
simply because they are good
management practices. This success has
little to do with cultural factors. And the
lack of cultural bias means that these
practices can be – and are – just as
successfully employed elsewhere."
– Masaaki Imai
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“Lean is the endless pursuit of waste
elimination.”
– LeanBreakthru Consulting Group
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"You can have everything in life that you
want if you will just help enough other
people get what they want."
– Zig Zigglar
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“It's through curiosity and looking at
opportunities in new ways that we've always
mapped our path at Dell. There's always an
opportunity to make a difference.”
– Michael Dell
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“Human improvement is from within
outward.”
- James A. Froude
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"A good solution can be successfully
applied to almost any problem."
– Big Al's Law
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“It is often the last key on the ring which
opens the door.”
– proverb
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today,
hope for tomorrow.”
– unknown
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"Change is the window through which the
future enters your life."
– unknown
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“Improvement begins with I.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
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"A great company continuously measures
and improves the following attributes:
meritocracy, fairness, justice, openness,
speed , imagination and excellence in
execution."
– Narayana Murthy
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“ If you give people tools, and they use
their natural ability and their curiosity,
they will develop things in ways that
will surprise you very much beyond
what you might have expected.”
– unknown
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“The pursuit of perfection often
impedes improvement.”
– George F. Will
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"Being good enough, is not
good enough – give
customers a reason to be
faithful."
– Graham Roberts-Phelps
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“Safety First,
or First Aid !”
– unknown
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“The Largest Room in the World is the
Room for Improvement.”
– unknown
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"Traditional functional paradigm has
done more to impede customer focused,
business performance improvement over
the past two decades than almost any
other factor."
– Andrew Spanyi
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“If at first you do succeed,
try something harder.”
– proverb
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"Change before you have to."
– Jack Welch
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"One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out
has been successful is that my style of
leadership will no longer be tolerated in
this company."
– Jack Welch
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10 Commandments of Improvement
- by Gemba Research
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Abandon fixed ideas
Think of ways to make it possible
No excuses needed
Go for the simple solution, not the perfect one
Correct mistakes right away
Use your wits, not your wallet
Problems are opportunities
Repeat “why?” five times
Seek ideas from many people
There is no end to improvement
Quotable Quote
“Dream…
but don’t quit your day job.”
-Forrest Gump