The,Speed,Focus,Business,vewor DIY The Speed of Focus in Business
When starting a new work at home business it is very easy to become consumed by it. We spend so much time trying to get the business up and running that we may end up becoming burned out and lose our motivation. There is so much to learn and Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in
Iveworked with Toyota and helped with consulting and moving their factories. Theywork at an unbelievable speed because they are totally focused on one thing,which is the principle of kaizen: constant, never-ending improvement all thetime every day. Inother companies an employee has an idea and they send it through committee, andthen six months later it might get applied on the line. Notat Toyota. Theyreall focused on the same thing. Assoon as an employee gets a new idea about improving a process, they take it tothe constant, never-ending improvement department in the center of the plant.The employee says, If I had a wrench that was shaped like this, I could get alittle bit more leverage. I could save 2/10 of a second on every bolt Itighten. That would be really cool. Theimprovement department has no other job other than to actually manufacture andcreate what employees are proposing. So that new wrench will be helping movethe line tomorrow. Noticewhat this does to the organization. Nowthe Toyota plants in the U.S. are getting thousands of suggestions fromemployees. Why? Because thousands of suggestions have already been implemented,and people have become focused on improvement. Theywant to top themselves. Thething that is so powerful is not simply that they are getting lots ofsuggestions, because many organizations get lots of suggestions. The thing thatis so powerful about Toyota is that every suggestion relates to the companysfocus. Itgives self-esteem to the individual, who says, My idea just got accepted! Ican go home and tell my family I did something important this day, this year,this lifetime, and they are going to want to do more. Thatis called working on WOW. Itsworking on making the best automobiles on the planet so when the vehicles comeoff the assembly line, every employee knows that the WOW result is somethingthey contributed to. Toyotais the most profitable company in Japan and has been for years. Onthis level, what we have to do is look at the 80/20 rule and rethink what itis. Is it really 80/20? Or is it 1/99? Whatis the one vital thing that will maximize your results if you get it done withquality, consistency and speed?
The,Speed,Focus,Business,vewor