Describing what it looks like when an organization “embraces scientific thinking” has evolved over the years at the Shingo Institute. If the reader was to look at the Shingo Model™ and Guidelines...
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” – Helen Keller We...
“An Epic Win is an outcome that is so extraordinarily positive that you had no idea it was even possible until you achieved it. it was almost beyond the threshold of imagination and when you get there...
“No one appreciates the agonizing effort (Miyamoto) Musashi has made. Now that his years of training have yielded spectacular results, everybody talks about his “God-given talent.” That’s...
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” — Alvin Toffler Robert Krulwich of NPR distilled...
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. Leaders who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” – Anonymous Listening...
The best indicator of successfully developing a continuous improvement culture is your ability to engage people. Because “engagement is all about participation,” according to communications consultant...
Scott Wilson is the founder of MINIMAL (MNML), a hybrid design studio with a growing blue chip client roster, numerous self-manufactured products and joint ventures in development. An accomplished...
“Why do I stand up here? I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. You see the world looks very different up here … Just when you think...
Daniel Weil is a partner of Pentagram and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. Daniel has been working as an architect and designer since 1977 and his projects have included products, packaging,...