The Problem With Our Top Down Reliability Effort!
I'm using this week to get my office in order. This morning I found this series of drawings I did back around 1987. While I know my old friends from Building 317 will get a kick out of this, I also know that we weren't the first and won't be the last team of people who worked to make our plant a better place to work. I also know the last slide from this series is missing that showed the team alone saying "If you want to know how it happened, it pays to give credit where credit is due."
In the following 30 years I have heard similar stories of bottom up efforts that started successful and then whimpered out when the success couldn't be repeated in other areas. Teamwork is sometimes a fragile thing, it's success teaters on trust at all levels.
I also know that the folks at LinkedIn suggest we avoid trying to use humor to make a point or send a message. I know we found this to be funny in 1987 and I laughed again when I saw it today....Even back then I was smart enough to change the names to protect.... well ... Me! Enjoy and please, if you have a similar story please share or comment! And, if you like it please share! Happy New Year!
Facilitating organizations to achieve great results through program management and resilience.
8 年Fun! True! Scary! more humor on Linked-In please.
Continuous Improvement Lead
8 年Agreed Jose Wilkins!
Project Manager @ Trane Technologies | Non- Profit Director of Entrepreneurship @ National Black MBA | Sustainability Officer @ Profitability LLC
8 年Most will start an improvement approach by looking for the silver bullet and immediate impact without putting the foresight into the continued sustainable improvement. This behavior is what turns the focus into an initiative that in most times is short lived. Hence; the roller-coaster effect and marginalizing the bigger profit gain potential and leaving huge money on the table.
Solutions Delivery Manager, RCM Leader and Mobius Institute Instructor at Allied Reliability
8 年Exactly......seen it, been part of it.
Senior shift charge Engineer
8 年nice post I have question regarding this topic, what we know about the profit (as much the risk, as much will be the profit). now why labours wants to get/share the manager everything while the manger is having more risk. also, when a dentist is asking 50 $ to open my mouth, everyone will say because he pay alot to reach to this position to make it more clear, a labour/employees if the project fail no one will change them but the plant manager will be kicked out from the plant. so if the the project success why the employees want to get same or even to share? this is not my opinion, but this is the actual situation in our life which we are facing and I want to know your experience about this topic which is our life depends on