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Casual Articles - The Problem of Finding Fault
During a recent quick business trip to New York City a normal, everyday travel occurrence ignited a recurring observation I enjoy more and more frequently. The Entrepreneurial Spirit is booming in America!While sitting in a dank Yellow Cab, crawling in the normal snail paced city traffic, I struck up a conversation with my driver.
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IntroductionEnterprise Resources Planning (ERP) is an outgrowth of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) initiated in the 1970's as a new computer-based approach to planning and scheduling of material requirements and inventory, featuring the time-phased order point. MRP evolved to MRP II (Material Resources Planning) the "cl
Then suddenly an alarm goes off because a key piece of equipment has failed.
In most facilities the key emphasis immediately becomes, “Who is responsible?” Purveyors of this question will justify it by saying, “we need to know who made the mistake so it doesn't happen in the future.”
Actually this question is even more detrimental than the breakdown in the production line. The problem with finding fault is that it automatically assumes a single person or department is responsible for the failure. Although true in a rare number of cases, the real cause of problems in an organization stems from the culture of the organization.
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You have your restaurant open for several weeks now, customers are coming in…finally you have employees serving real food. But before you continue with your business further, be sure that you have everything else under control. It’s still important to be informed about what’s hot and what’s not and what’s important in handling a restauran
Then suddenly an alarm goes off because a key piece of equipment has failed.
In most facilities the key emphasis immediately becomes, “Who is responsible?” Purveyors of this question will justify it by saying, “we need to know who made the mistake so it doesn't happen in the future.”
Actually this question is even more detrimental than the breakdown in the production line. The problem with finding fault is that it automatically assumes a single person or department is responsible for the failure. Although true in a rare number of cases, the real cause of problems in an organization stems from the culture of the organization.
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In most facilities the key emphasis immediately becomes, “Who is responsible?” Purveyors of this question will justify it by saying, “we need to know who made the mistake so it doesn't happen in the future.”
Actually this question is even more detrimental than the breakdown in the production line. The problem with finding fault is that it automatically assumes a single person or department is responsible for the failure. Although true in a rare number of cases, the real cause of problems in an organization stems from the culture of the organization.
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A tremendous amount has been written about Executive Compensation, and lately, most of this information has been extremely unflattering. Much of the criticism has resulted from the gross excesses, misinterpretations of regulations, and the rash of criminal cases brought against the top management of a number of large firms, such as World
Actually this question is even more detrimental than the breakdown in the production line. The problem with finding fault is that it automatically assumes a single person or department is responsible for the failure. Although true in a rare number of cases, the real cause of problems in an organization stems from the culture of the organization.
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So you want to be a self made millionaire and you have started a home based business with a company but somewhere along the hype line you have lost your way.Where is that we as home based business owners go wrong? And why do we give up so easily thinking it is not worth it? Why is the dream of becoming a self employed millionaire e
In the case of the broken down production line, the most important thing to do is to get the production line running again. The overriding question should be, “how we work together as a team to get to line up and running as quickly as possible?”
Once the production line is running, it becomes acceptable to find out how we can prevent a future breakdown. However the question we need to ask ourselves is not, “who is responsible?” The correct question is, “how did we create a culture that allow this breakdown to happen, and how can we adjust our culture to get better results in the future?’
I have worked with hundreds of companies over the years and have been amazed at the difference in these two approaches. Regardless of which approach an organization is taking, they always seem to feel the result will be the same - a better future. In reality, those companies who a
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