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Category Archives: Culture

A Like Minded Spouse

Being a twenty something and single fellow I often wonder about finding a woman who shares the same kind of beliefs that I have when it comes to money and becoming free from the employee way of life and living pay check to paycheck.
It seems like everywhere you turn and see a lot of relationships [...]

About American As

Once I had an interesting conversation with a friend, Mike, about kaizen and in particular 5Sing a workplace to keep it neat and orderly including a regular maintenance program (sometimes referred to as total productive or total preventative maintenance) for equipment used in the workplace.
The point I was making was that the operators of the [...]

Get Organized For Productivity

An essential ingredient for increasing productivity is good housekeeping, this includes cleaning up the areas where work is done to get rid of unused, obsolete and antiquated items that are getting in the way. Another required piece of good housekeeping is organizing or straightening the items and tools that are used to perform a task.
Simply [...]

The Power Of Kaizen In A Video

Here is a video on the kaizen process, I wanted to show this because it completely revamps an office setting with computers and paperwork processes and not a factory floor. Continuous improvement can be used with positive results in any business setting.
Here is the URL to the video:
http://www.tbmcg.com/video/video.php?s=2&id=36&lang=en
Look at the major accomplishments as a result [...]

24 Hour Special - Lean Business System Course

For the next 24 hours you can get the Lean Business System online home study course for just $10, after that the price will be $105.
Here is the URL:
http://www.leanbusinesssystem.com/special.html
Continuous improvement really is powerful stuff to make major improvements in any company. This online home study course breaks it down into easy steps… If your business [...]

Stop The Junk

I have to admit that visiting forums is a part of this business model, primarily for purposes of traffic generation (more on those results later)… however when it comes to the online based business world I have begun to realize there is certain amount of money making garbage floating around the net.
Robert at CyberCashology really [...]

The Customer As Quality Control

The absolute worst time to begin building quality into the business processes is when the customer complains due to issues like poor quality, late delivery and so forth. Plainly stated customers aren’t the quality control department… if you have to reactively engage in improvement efforts due to customer complaints then your business has some serious [...]

The Business 500

If you have ever been to or watched a car race before then you’re probably familiar with how the pit crew operates. Once the race car comes in for a pit stop the team springs into action working together to fix the car, change tires, refueling and making any other adjustments in only a matter [...]

Firefighting Problems Is Not Heroic

How many times do you see the person fixing a major problem time and time again being rewarded for doing a good job? If constant firefighting of reoccurring problems goes on in your business and those who fix the issue receive accolades… you should be ashamed. Operating in a constant reactive panic mode is a [...]

Quality To 99% And Beyond

Often fledgling business owners and entrepreneurs have a difficult time bringing in human resources (employees, contractors, interns, etc) to offload tasks onto for the simple fact they are stuck in a belief that it takes years of experience and know how to perform the work while not making mistakes and being able to produce the [...]