Don Kiefer
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146 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 21 Mar
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And the goal I set myself was I always wanted to predict the next question he would ask me.
And I think that was the, when I got to that point, I think it was, as the old saying says, the student slaps the teacher.
He wanted to go a certain way in our plant in Harley, which didn't fit our culture and it was different than we could do.
And I said, no, I don't want to do that.
But I turned, and that's when Nelson and I pivoted, made a pivot to intellectual work in the office area.
But being able to think that progression of questions that he would ask has served me well for a long, long time.
So I want to be like him in that way.
I think this is more about experience for me.
What Mr. Oba got me back to was from my early career, because I was a problem solver.
That's how I got from the shop floor to where I was.
I went to school later and I started out with a high school education.
So it was always like just pushing for the next thing.
So he got me back to what's the problem?
Because as I had gone up through management, it was like, what's the initiative?
What are we going to do?
And then he really grounded me in what's the problem we're trying to solve?
Can you describe it, quantify it?
I think through experience,
I learned to pick the most leveraged problem I could find to make an assessment of the situation and like where is the most leverage and the thing that's going to give me five other new areas to go to.
And it turns out the answer is pretty simple conceptually.
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