by dveech | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate your performance. With Sakichi Toyoda’s death in 1930, his Son Kiichiro and nephew Risaburo were left to run his businesses. As a result of a great earthquake in 1923, which destroyed significant pieces of Japan’s...
by dveech | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance. I have been a lean teacher, coach, and consultant for over 20 years. Lean is coupled closely with the Toyota Production System, often simply TPS. Why? That goes back to the mid-1980s when the US Auto Industry was...
by dveech | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
The story of Toyota begins with Sakichi Toyoda who was born in 1867 and began his working life as a carpenter like his father. I heard a story once, though, about Sakichi’s curiousity. The story was that he once spent an entire day watching his...
by dveech | Mar 23, 2021 | coaching, confidence, culture, encouragement, goal setting, history, leadersights, learning, reflection
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate your Performance. I have to apologize for letting this series slip. I’ve been letting a lot of things distract me from this project. I really enjoy making these short videos and sharing them with everyone, but the most...
by dveech | Mar 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance. We’ve been looking at the historical progression from craft manufacturing to mass manufacturing and ultimately to lean manufacturing, and drawing connections to a variety of technology – and demand –...
by dveech | Feb 23, 2021 | AT&T, history, industrial revolution, leadersights, Samuel Morse, telegraph, western union
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.I intended to share some thoughts about the birth of aviation today, but I didn’t want to neglect a very important late 19th century set of developments that rapidly accelerated the growth of the economy...
by dveech | Feb 22, 2021 | automobile, car, Ford Motor Company, history, industrial revolution, leadersights, learning
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.The automobile industry literally changed the face of America. This single enterprise led to more technological innovations in manufacturing, metallurgy, electronics, oil refining, distribution systems,...
by dveech | Feb 16, 2021 | Gratitude, history, industrial revolution, leadersights, lean, learning
Today I want to pick up from the last episode, where I talked about the birth and growth of Iron and Steel, railroads, and the oil industry through the early 1800s; evidence of the first industrial revolution in the US.There’s no real date for when the...
by dveech | Feb 3, 2021 | culture, history, industrial revolution, leadersights, lean, productivity
As we’re moving through our American timeline from craft manufacturing to mass production, I’ve rarely studied the period between Eli Whitney’s milling machine and Henry Ford’s assembly line.The 19th century seemed to hide great strides in...
by dveech | Feb 1, 2021 | history, industrial revolution, leadersights, lean
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your PerformanceWe’re continuing the conversation about the industrial revolution, bringing us from the craft manufacturing age to the mass manufacturing age.The most significant enabler of mass production is the concept...
