Paul Akers
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's a total joke.
Well, the only way you're going to do it, again, is going back to this being illuminated.
You must have a keen understanding of what's really going on.
What's really going on is all the value for the customers being added on the Gemba.
It's not being added and you having endless meetings and everything.
And you have to ask yourself why.
In Japanese vernacular, we say nande, nande, nande.
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why?
Why are you in these meetings?
poor communication, nobody listens.
I don't know what it is.
There's all kinds of reasons.
I rarely have meetings.
I mean, I don't even know what those are.
You know what I mean?
It's just so rare.
It's unbelievable.
Are your people having meetings when it's appropriate?
Yeah, they'll have, for instance, I'll give you an example of a meeting in our company.
So we have our morning meeting for a half hour and then the production supervisor is