by dveech | Jul 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
I want to share some other ideas I’ve had about 579 Leadership and share a couple of events that I’m planning. First, I’m starting to record episodes for a podcast I’m simply going to call Leadersights, after my book. It’ll be a...
by dveech | Jul 7, 2021 | coaching, confidence Leadership empowerment, encouragement, leadership, leadersights, lean, learning
Yesterday, I introduced this idea I’ve had surrounding numbers and balance. I showed how odd numbers in the scale from 1 to 9, when depicted as dots on a line, have evenly distributed numbers on each side of a center point, reflecting a balanced system. As I...
by dveech | Jul 6, 2021 | coaching, leadership, leadersights, lean, productivity, reflection
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate your performance. A few months ago, I stumbled onto a little article about numbers and numerology. As I was reading through what they said each of these numbers meant, I kept drawing connections with leadership. Weird, I know....
by dveech | Jul 1, 2021 | C4 Process, coaching, culture, employee engagement, goal setting, high speed problem solving, leadership, leadersights, lean, learning, Mastermind Study Group, problem solving, teams
After taking June off from making videos, I figure it’s time to get back at it, especially since it was one year ago today that I made the first of these. I managed to run a pretty good streak then. When I broke the streak, I broke that momentum. As with everything...
by dveech | May 25, 2021 | coaching, culture, employee engagement, engagement, high speed problem solving, history, leadersights, lean, learning, problem solving, quality, teams
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate your performance. Let’s talk about Quality Circles; also known as Quality Control Circles or QC Circles. Quality circles are small groups of employees with cross-functional skills who work together on a problem in the workplace...
by dveech | May 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate your performance. Last week, I introduced the birth of the Quality Movement which followed W. Edwards Deming’s series of lectures with the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers in 1950. Today, I want to tease out a few more...
by dveech | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance. I’ve been making my way through the history of events and people who have shaped Toyota, enabling them to become the great company they are. It started with Sakichi Toyoda, who’s known in Japan as the King of...
by dveech | May 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance I’ve been focusing these past couple of months on the historical activities that got manufacturing and business to where we are today. I’ve been focused on Toyota lately because of the impact they...
by dveech | May 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate your Performance. Post WWII, Japan was under the control of the US Military. Our objectives were to remove war-making capability from Japan, and to restore it’s economy so it can rejoin the world in open trade. Dozens of measures...
by dveech | May 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m David Veech and this is elevate your performance. Sorry about the long break. I had knee replacement surgery for my left knee and the recovery isn’t going as smoothly as I’d like. It’s going well, but I’m in a hurry and some things you just can’t rush along....