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1: Hip Flexors Aren't Evil...Do They Hold The Key to Faster Running Speed?
The mere mention of the hip flexors often sends personal trainers into a tizzy. "Do whatever you can to eliminate them from the exercise!" they scream.And, for a lot of people, this CAN be decent advi..
2: Boldly Take Your Business Where No One Has Gone Before
The future belongs to those whobelieve in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor RooseveltAnother of the big hurdles to making improvements is found in the bee analogy: Many people limit themselves to t..
3: Secrets of Super Learning Pt 5
When you embark on anything new, it is very powerful to be your own best cheerleader. Friends and family will often not give you the encouragement you will need. In any undertaking, it is useful to ..
4: Secrets of Super Learning Pt 4
We tend to be very driven. When we are consciously aware of and in control of this quality, it can be very useful. Of course, being aware of and in control of your compulsions, impressions, and expe..
5: Secrets of Super Learning Pt 3
In order to learn and to plan your schedule of training, it is important to understand the different phases of learning that you will go through. I borrowed this model from NLP (neuro-linguistic prog..
6: Secrets of Super Learning Pt 2
As you further develop your skill, one of the best ways to build momentum is to come up with a process to test small changes in your execution. This gives you a way of constantly improving as well as..
7: Secrets of Super Learning Pt 1
There is a line we have to walk between 'not prepared' and 'over prepared'. In actuality, it is very difficult to be 'over prepared', but people commonly use more preparation as an excuse to delay th..
8: Weight Training - The 5 Stages of Power Development
Whether you want to lift more weight or get stronger, Knowing how power is developed in your body is key to getting stronger and more powerful in your sport, activity or weight training itself. There ..
9: To Grow and Reduce Costs Avoid Making Customers Wait in Unending Lines That Frustrate Them
Lines aren't just for assembly; they are also for people waiting to be served. As you well know, many processes require unnecessary waiting. Each person is directed to follow exactly behind a specific..
10: For Low Costs and Happy Customers Create Flexible Automation
The General Motors approach to automation has been inflexible. It did optimize costs if you made tremendous numbers of exactly the same vehicle. If you needed to change over to offer vehicle variation..
11: Let Customers Adjust Automation to Fit Their Needs
Here's a better idea: Encourage beneficiaries, customers, and users to decide how much automation they want to use . . . and when they want to use that automation. Customize your automation to uniquel..
12: Make Doing-It-Yourself Faster Than Getting Help in the Usual Way
What benefits can come from having beneficiaries, customers, and users doing more for themselves? In our harried lives, most people favor doing things themselves when that action saves their time. Tha..
13: For the Lowest Costs Recheck a Process Before Automating It
Despite admonitions to automate the best of what's possible, most automation simply reduces costs somewhat for yesterday's obsolete practices. You only avoid that stalled approach by rechecking a proc..
14: Attract More Chicago Singles When You're Speed Dating In Chicago
The results of your speed dating in Chicago will start from the moment you step into the bar or club. Everyone of your dates for the night will be looking to see who walks in the entrance, and they wi..
15: Add Breakthrough Solution Cost-Reduction Capability
Most organizations have only one person in them who knows how to create breakthrough solutions. Why? These individuals have usually learned about and created breakthrough solutions on their own, away ..
16: Square the Benefits of Your Recent Breakthrough Cost Reductions
When clients and students describe their first breakthrough solutions, they always acknowledge that repeating the process will be a good idea. When the improvement has been related to reducing costs, ..
17: Expand Your Focus to Locate Previously Unperceived Targets for Cost Reductions
New breakthrough solution cost reducers often lack confidence when they begin. As a result, they pick some area of glaring inefficiency as an easy target. In such activities, it's not unusual for a br..
18: For Best Results Repeat Cost-Reduction Steps
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel PaigeWhen you buy most vehicles, they come with an owner's manual that describes routine checkups and maintenance. The purpose of such ch..
19: Resist All Expensive and Slow-Developing Choices to Pursue Cost-Reduction Opportunities
What is a slow-developing opportunity? It's almost always an opportunity that you don't know how to pursue yet. What's a slow-developing, expensive opportunity? It's an opportunity for which you've sp..
20: Redo Your Business Model to Make Functions in Your Organization Obsolete
One of the most reliable ways to see what's unnecessary is simply to develop a new business model that eliminates some functions. Perhaps no area has been as profoundly influenced by this approach as ..
21: Ask the World to Compete to Find Breakthrough Methods
Competitive advantage is based not on doing what others already do well, but on doing what others cannot do as well. --John Kay What organization can afford to stand still? Most would agree that focus..
22: Design Your Offering to Be Friendlier to Do-It-Yourselfers
The people who design offerings are often the worst people to design do-it-yourself directions for beneficiaries, customers, and users. Why? Designers know too much! They can help themselves very easi..
23: Pick Critical Elements That Can Lead to Breakthrough Cost Reductions
Those who analyze systems understand that a process can only operate as well as the least effective activity. Mr. Henry Ford's assembly line couldn't go any faster than the slowest step in the process..
24: Launch Redundant Searches for Cost-Reduction Solutions
When you're trying to do something no one has ever thought about doing before, where do you find the best solution? Chances are that you cannot predict what the best information and knowledge sources ..
25: Set Cost Reduction Goals to Move Years Ahead of Competitors by Seeking Worldwide Expertise
A good way to accelerate improving competitive position is to set progress goals to move years ahead of what anyone else has been delivering. An even better idea is to set goals that represent astonis..
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