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If you’ve done that and you get a bad outcome in the short term, pick yourself up and go back at it the next day because over time it will lead to success.
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February 25, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
"I’ve ALWAYS found that the face-to-face relationship is far superior." Always?
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February 20, 2014 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
In the worst case I figured, I could always change them back to what they were. So I “fixed” them. Disaster?
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February 10, 2014 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Let’s do drugs and forget about diet and exercise. Who wants to avoid problems? They pay us big bucks to fix them!
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January 22, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
You know that if you don’t show up, people are going to notice.
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January 10, 2014 Bruce Benson
Communication
I first discovered creative incompetency when I was a young Air Force officer but it has served me well throughout my whole business career.
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December 19, 2013 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Measure interruptions to people’s work so we know how much we interfere with their concentration? This will also interrupt the person we are trying to help!
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December 16, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
That’s astonishing to me. The rules are not being applied well or they need to be more strict! Uh, oh - not so fast Senator.
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September 11, 2013 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
The VP went ballistic when I reported that it took us one minute on average to review each product defect. She simply did not like working with facts.
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August 26, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
If we believe really hard, we certainly should be able to reduce our time by 33%! Maybe, but not by going for it all at once. Here is how we did it.
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August 23, 2013 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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The business manager spoke up in an incredible and disbelieving voice “you are planning to fail?!” Yes, and it became our most successful project to date.
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August 13, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
An warning message from a satellite 1.5 million kilometers in space that gets processed within seconds then waits for someone to type it into an email. Why?
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July 26, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
It’s not always the bad guys, doing bad things that cause problems. It’s often your best employees making silly mistakes.
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July 24, 2013 Bruce Benson
Staffing
It was a bit strange. Here we had a fairly successful product but I almost found myself wishing it had not been. What was wrong with me?
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July 22, 2013 Bruce Benson
Leadership
The tangled history of innovation reveals a peculiar lesson: Slow is often better than fast ... or maybe not.
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July 17, 2013 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement