Matt is currently responsible for coaching general contractor project teams in their implementation of the Last Planner® System and building the capability of their personnel in solving problems collaboratively. His interest is in production system design while creating environments that form high performing systems. With an academic background in advanced industrial engineering, Matt is competent to coach teams adopting a wide variety of lean tools. He’s been certified by the Training Within Industry (TWI) Institute to delivery 10-hour courses on Job Instruction (JI) and Job Relations (JR). He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Industrial Engineering.
I made a mistake in my thinking in the above post. It is a common mistake in logic. I am only writing about it here because I want to acknowledge this. Anger may in fact not cause fear. I think it does, but that is only my opinion.
For more information about the classic logic trap of post hoc, ergo propter hoc ("after this, therefore because of this") see the Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc,_ergo_propter_hoc
Thanks for the idea here. I am constantly struggling to get people to understand that by hanging stuff on the walls they can activate what they've learned every time they see it. This is the purpose of hanging up charts to indicate performance and little inspirational quotes about Lean or whatever. I believe this is how to make what is known as a lean culture AKA the whole is more than the sum of the parts AKA people know when they walk into a lean site that something different is going on and they need to do things differently here.
THANKS FOR THE TIPS! Now, where are my note cards...
Hi Chris,
I've been thinking a lot about how I do things. Like you mention - FLW didn't include outlets for laptops. Although this may have been a bit before his time. Regardless, I am trying to learn to observe how I operate in my life. Spinosa, Flores and Dreyfus (Disclosing New Worlds) define an innovation as a change in the way we do things. So for example, I like to get dirty in the back yard gardening. It would be an innovation if I had a tiled back entrance to my house with a shower. Or at least a dirty laundry chute.
To me this relates to lean (in one way) with the Last Planner System. The job still gets built, but we are changing how it is planned. And the Last Planner System better takes care of people's concerns - respect for people and continuous improvement.
Best regards,
Matthew
As my teacher's guru said, "Never too late, never too old, never too bad" and Bikram added "never too sick...to start from the scratch once again."
Thanks for the post Chris. I am going to be eating a lot of humility in the coming weeks with a dozen critics of the PPH.
I really enjoyed Karen Martin's free webinar on Lean Psychology today.
http://www.ksmartin.com/webinars/
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