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Another Deeply Hidden, Lurking Cost

These 21 demotivators create slowdowns, mistakes, and inefficient work habits

Davis Balestracci
Mon, 06/03/2013 - 16:22
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When improvement initiatives don’t yield the results promised, it’s very tempting to have the knee-jerk reaction of blaming the workers for their poor attitudes and lack of work ethic. But what if one took a counterintuitive approach: looking within one’s business systems for the true causes for low motivation—and for their remedies?

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Submitted by Bill Gotschall on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 10:15

Survey

I tried to take the survey but got this error message;

"You must be a member and logged in to access this page. If you are not a member, click the Register link in the upper right corner of this page."

 

 

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Submitted by Rip Stauffer on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:12

In reply to Survey by Bill Gotschall

Try again

I checked it after I read your message, Bill. You might want to try again. It's in Quality Digest, so maybe when you registered to put in your comment, you got into the system.

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Submitted by Rip Stauffer on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:14

Thanks for this, Davis!

Once again, you bring me back down to earth, and remind me that "the soft stuff is the HARD stuff!" Excellent article; can't wait for the tie to data.

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Submitted by bamfordr on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 08:14

A Thought About #5 Make a ... Plan

I suspect "#5 Make a ... plan" is intended to include (or imply) execute the plan and manage the plan (i.e., monitor the plan, report progress, adjust the plan).  It should be obvious, but I've seen too many plans wind up in the drawer to be confident that implied follow-through will actually happen.

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