These ten ideas will dramatically improve your projects. Are these ten rules the top ten? You decide. But don't take too long. Share these rules with your team. Your team members are sure to help you carry them out!
Pay attention: OSHA has fined Broadway Concrete for 15 willful violations involving fall protection and unprotected rebar on a 50-story NYC building. Let's not let it happen again.
Ask Fluor. They did that by cutting their injury rate from 100 to 9 in one year. Let's not settle for less.
Curious blog We Know Engineers on A/E firms. Worth checking out.
Glen makes two big claims:
Learn from a Stanford d.School prof. Robert Sutton has a great weblog Work Matters and he's the author of The Knowing-Doing Gap and The No Assholes Rule.
From the Lean Insider: Speaking to Toyota employees at the Detroit Auto Show President Watanabe asked that they take responsibility for recent quality problems.
"I do not regard the problem as something that suppliers are responsible for. We must work together so that we are fully aware of where suppliers are."Bernstein closes saying, "At Toyota, they know that doing the best job of serving the customer is what makes the company profitable."
Brad Appleton reviewed Lean Project Management, by L Leach concluding, "I found Lean Project Management to be a fairly quick read providing a good overview of some TOC and CCPM fundamentals and how they align with Lean thinking."
I'm glad to have Claude posting at RPM. It was Claude who gave name to these wonder filled times -- the project age. Please welcome him with your comments.
The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation by Matthew E. May
Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words by Stephen Young
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
