How Your Bonus Affects Your Colleagues’ Behavior
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A bonus can tell you a lot about what really motivates employees (even if you think you already know)
A New Spin on the ‘Stand in a Circle’ Exercise, Part 2
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First find solutions, and then identify and track long-term activities
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Employee Motivation
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Happy employees. Where does it come from? Internal or external motivation?
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What are the common mistakes managers make when trying to motivate employees? In this article, we’ll discuss these mistakes and some better strategies to successfully motivate employees.
Manufacturing Lessons from Space
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From aerospace to automotive to custom bicycles, if you’re not using the best technology, you’re not creating the most value.
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A New Spin on the Ohno Circle, Part 1
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When an organization finds and eliminates waste, it gains a competitive advantage
What Do You Mean My Production Is Wonky?
You can be known as a hard worker and counted on to tie up loose ends, but fall behind when co-workers’ tasks are on hold until yours are complete, and you’re perceived as needing an attitude adjustment. What would you want to do? Place blame or work on a remedy?
Four Decision-Making Styles and When to Use Them
Sometimes leaders make bad decisions or harm team morale by making autocratic decisions without involving others. And other times they waste their team’s time by unnecessarily involving them.
Taking the Step from <em>Gemba</em> Walks to Layered Process Audits
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Layered process audits and gemba walks are both done on-site
Reading the Automotive Industry Action Group’s CQI-8 Layered Process Audit (LPA) Guideline, you might notice a line saying LPAs are “completed on site ‘where the work is done.’”
We’ll Always Have Paris…
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Artist's rendition of Donald Trump Pondering the Paris Climate Agreement