Make No Mistake
There are three Golden Rules I lay out in my book, True32 Flow Manufacturing. The very best way I know to stop practicing a mistake is to remove the opportunity for mistake from the process. All three rules are your marching orders when creating your systems, setting up your processes and writing your procedures.
Read MoreBe A Systemologist
If you are tired of all the chaos and stress of being an Entrepreneur or Solopreneur, then I have a suggestion. Start building your systems TODAY! Become a Systemologist TODAY! If you develop and manage your systems well, then your systems will manage your people, and the chaos and stress levels will drop substantially. If…
Read MoreConsistency
When I think of Consistency, One-Piece-Flow always comes to mind. Our preprogrammed, or default nature is to batch things, and most of us think bigger batches are better than smaller batches, which is the exact opposite of One-Piece-Flow. I’m not saying you can’t be consistent with your big batches, just that human nature is to…
Read MoreA Perfect Plan is a Myth
No matter the flag it flies or flew under, a planned Economy has never, does not and never will work. You can change the name, the logo, the vision statement, the mission statement and anything else you can think of to make it more palatable, but this plane (or plan) won’t fly. Doctors “practice” medicine…
Read MoreTo be, or not to be a Systemologist
When God gave Moses the law, he was providing a “System” that would enable the Hebrew people to cooperate so they could live and trade in community. One of the really basic systems was how the tabernacle would be moved each time they set out for a new location, using loops, poles, and specific people…
Read MoreIs your Company Attractive?
Building on my last post about Marketing (Never STOP Marketing), the same line of thought applies to Recruiting. Even when we are not in need of additional team members, we should always be looking for our next star team member. Recruiting is defined as identifying, attracting, interviewing, selecting, hiring and onboarding team members, and we…
Read MoreMarketing = Good Cash Flow
Cash Flow is the lifeblood of business, and there is no better way to kill Cash Flow than to never market your business, to never sell your products and/or services. If you succeed in killing cash flow, you will succeed in killing your company. I once heard an evangelist preach a sermon about Clairol Christians,…
Read MoreBig Batch Flow = Bad Cash Flow
I thought it providential that this was the featured quote that surfaced today (I have these charted our for several years, just in case you thought they were random). As some of you know, but many probably don’t, I’ve been working on a revised addition of the True32 Flow Manufacturing book (a lot has changed…
Read MoreGoals Stand on the Shoulders of Systems
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” -James Clear
Read MoreCustom Cabinet Estimator 8.001 Update
I have just completed the work on the latest 8.001 update to both the Online and Desktop versions of Custom Cabinet Estimator. I will deal with the Desktop version first since it was just a couple simple changes to fix a couple bugs. Desktop Version The first is almost irrelevant, as it was simply the…
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