Wisdom

Heijunka or sustainable pace?

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is much more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze.

Taiichi Ohno

Business basics, again?

Management is doing things right;

Leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Business basics?

Efficiency is doing things right;

Effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Where to build quality in?

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

W. Edwards Deming

Manage the people or the system?

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

W. Edwards Deming

Set and change, to infinity… and beyond?

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

Taiichi Ohno

Distributed cognition, does it matter?

A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.

Swahili Proverb

Value people first, or maximize shareholder value?

If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.

W. Edwards Deming

Who should own the Process?

Standards should not be forced down from above, but rather set by the production workers themselves.

Taiichi Ohno