John Bergmann WDTM Action Welcome to the last post in my "what does that mean" series. I have tried to communicate some ideas you can use in life or work. Hopefully what I have gone over can result in you having some new persp... culture leadership quality systems start somewhere
John Bergmann WDTM Service Welcome back to my "what does that mean" series. I am quite behind my intended cadence of these. It is on my yearly goal list to be more punctual with my writing. I expected to finish my service discu... quality systems
John Bergmann WDTM Ownership It has been a hot minute since Igraced everyone with my ideas. some of you are happy about it. Sorry, not sorry to disappoint. I jumped into doing a series about various activities I would associate w...
John Bergmann Find Their Why It has been a couple weeks since I last visited this topical area. Today I wanted to go through a leadership failure of mine and hopefully provide some insight into ways you might avoid my mistakes. I...
John Bergmann WDTM Leadership For some reason I've decided I need to do blog series posts. Not sure why, it just makes sense to me. This "what does that mean" series is something I felt was useful because I have had times where I ...
John Bergmann Start Somewhere Metrics How many of us see a defect in manufacturing...and wonder if it is a big problem. Is it a little problem? Chances are, if you don't have it setup in your manufacturing management system, you don't kno...
John Bergmann Who talks about their failures? It occurred to me I don't really go through situations where my performance wasn't great. The times where I wasn't good enough, by effort or otherwise. I have only talked about the "can do" rather tha...
John Bergmann WDTM Culture of Quality It occurred to me, in conjunction with my general mission to help people "Start Somewhere" I could do some writing about what some terms and ideas mean. On the top of my brain lately has been Culture ...
John Bergmann Visible & invisible quality Quality can be visible and invisible. I tend to think the invisible kind is what really matters to consumers. We like things that just work, solve our problems, make our lives easier, all without addi...
John Bergmann Training Training is too often overlooked and underutilized. People will get job training when they start, and never again. We, as leaders, do our people a disservice by failing to reinvest time and knowledge ...
John Bergmann Value propositions I went through the idea of value propositions last year on my podcast. I thought the script might be a useful addition to my blog and I hope you agree. I wrote it up around black Friday, so you'll see...
John Bergmann Priorities Hello, I am adapting a bunch of my old podcast scripts into blog posts. Today it is all about priorities. I wanted to go over some useful ways to define them and make your day more productive. It's sh...