In my last post I started a sarcastic post on how to bring your organization to a standstill… not because I want that, but so you can see what NOT to do to in order to improve your organization. Many of the ideas are based on the US Simple Sabotage Field Manual and the Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerilla Warfare and Underground Instructions, but adapted to a modern factory environment. Below I continue the list of ideas for how to screw up your company. I’m sure you have seen some of them in action, even though they were not intended that way. Again: This is for you to see what NOT to do. Please enjoy!
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How to Grind Your Organization to a Standstill—Part 1
I write a lot of posts explaining what to do to improve your organization. But occasionally I write a (sarcastic!) explanation on how to make everything worse. Of course, I don’t want to make your organization worse. However, it is valuable to see what makes things worse, and in turn how to avoid exactly these things so as NOT to make it worse. Maybe—and I am optimistic here—maybe even try to do the opposite and make it better? Anyway, let’s learn how (not?) to screw up an organization…
How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 3
This is the last of my three posts on how to benefit at the cost of your successor. And again, please don’t. This is more of a warning on how to damage the plant for the benefit of the manager. And again, I hope rather than someone using this as a to-do list, someone uses it to see dangers. This last post looks at the worst “trick” of them all, burning the goodwill of your employees for a quick buck. It also looks at the one easiest to see, selling the plant and renting it back.
How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 2
This is the second post in this short three-post series on how to look good while driving the plant into the ground. Again, the following is intended more of a warning on how NOT to do it, even though I fear some may use it as a checklist. My hope is that even more see the signs and can stop it, or at least not reward the person in question for this type of skullduggery. I will also talk briefly about how to recognize and counteract this type of behavior for the long-term health and success of your plant.
How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 1
This post series will be an unusual one. I will tell you how to look good in manufacturing at the cost of your successor. Of course, I do NOT want you to do that. Not only will there be no improvement, but instead the plant will be worse in the long run at the cost of a short-term benefit. This is a somewhat sarcastic post on the dirty tricks you can use to look good, while at the same time driving your (future) plant into the ground. The responsible managers of course will be somewhere else before the inevitable happens. Even though the approaches below are bad for the plant, I am sure some managers will use this as a checklist. But I hope that even more people will see it as a list of warnings for bad managers.
How to Misguide Your Visitor – or What Not to Pay Attention to During a Plant Visit!
In the previous post I talked about how to have a successful plant tour and how to get the most information out of the visit. Today’s post shares the tricks of the trade on what things the plant does NOT want you to know about.See through the ruse during a plant tour and discover how good the plant really is.
Top Three Methods on how to Fudge Your OEE
The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is by far and wide the most lied-about and fudged measurement on the shop floor, both intentionally or by accident. This post tells you the top three different ways how an OEE is fudged, so you know which OEE to trust and which one not.