by dveech | Jan 29, 2021 | history, industrial revolution, leadersights, lean, learning
I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.Last time I offered some thoughts on the craft age. Today, I want to start talking about how we ended up mastering mass manufacturing.As I mentioned last time, shifting population patterns, from rural...
by dveech | Jan 27, 2021 | coaching, culture, history, leadership, leadersights
While this segment is called The Craft Age and craft culture, I’m not sure that “Craft Age” is an appropriate term. Since the very first human struck two rocks together to make a sharp edge, we’ve been making things by hand. Craft...
by dveech | Jan 26, 2021 | culture, leadership, leadersights, learning, unconscious bias
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.I love studying historical timelines. History’s stories have always been fascinating. But there is so much rich detail, and so often contradictory records based on the point of view of...
by dveech | Jan 19, 2021 | corporate culture, employee engagement, leadership, productivity, self-efficacy
Good morning. I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.The term “High Performance Culture” has been in circulation for a pretty long time now with probably a dozen consulting firms offering strategies to create one. Most of these...
by dveech | Dec 30, 2020 | coaching, corporate culture, employee engagement, goal setting, high speed problem solving, leadership, lean, learning, reflection, self-efficacy
After the new year, I’m planning to get back into the daily video business. I’ve been spending these past couple of weeks focused first on family, then on developing some new ideas.Neither of these are really new ideas, but I’m mustering up...
by dveech | Dec 14, 2020 | coaching, corporate culture, engagement, leadersights
https://youtu.be/jZEuHIko1jMHi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.It’s December 14, 2020. The first truckloads of COVID-19 Vaccines headed toward 636 distributions centers over the weekend. It’ll still be months before...
by dveech | Dec 8, 2020 | coaching, corporate culture, employee engagement, leadership, leadersights
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.Let’s take a quick look back at what happened on December 8 in history, then we’ll get into today’s topic – Cultures of ExcitementPerhaps the first crack in the glass ceiling occurred on this day in 1660...
by dveech | Dec 4, 2020 | C4 Process, corporate culture, high speed problem solving, leadersights
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.It’s my granddaughter Ivy’s first birthday today. She’s a fireball already and promises to be the perfect wild child. I’m sure her moms will be able to handle it…one way or another. Happy...
by dveech | Dec 1, 2020 | coaching, encouragement, leadersights
Hi everyone.We have made it to December, despite 2020! Of course, there have always been end-of-the-world predictions surrounding the first day of Winter, December 21, so we can’t say we’ve got it made until at least after that.2020 has definitely...
by dveech | Nov 26, 2020 | Gratitude, leadersights, Thanksgiving
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and I also want to make a special shout out to my lovely bride of 36 years since it’s her birthday today. Happy Birthday, baby. I love you.It’s been a...
