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This technique is called a 5-Why in lean manufacturing. Useful tool in digging into a root cause, and helps people think deeply about the causes of issues that are not inherently o…

I had a boss that worked in Continuous Improvement. As a manager he was great because he was very good at coming up with the nucleus of an idea. He was terrible about implementing …

When writing crappy code you are either not thinking long term at all, or you are just "kicking the can down the road", in that you'll pay for it later when there isn't a time crun…

For mine, participation entails a yearly health screening. The screening measures blood pressure, BMI, nicotine usage, and cholesterol (via a blood draw). Depending on the findings…

They don't even use step 4. They just raise the "non-participation" penalty so high that you, for all intents and purposes, have to participate. The company I work for charges a $5…

The same thing happens with an actual police force, though. Too much adrenaline and the "shoot first, ask questions never" mentality.

I have an excellent example of this. Despite having both Chrome and Firefox installed on my home desktop computer, my wife continues to use IE 11. Even with her own profile for Chr…