我们在健身房的一年
我青春期最糟糕的回忆几乎是健身班。我从来不是运动员。我住在一个小牧场的房子里,所以即使楼梯也是像我这样的扁平地的挑战。
锻炼涉及俯卧撑,隆起,跑步圈和肺部破坏的体育场台阶几乎杀死了我并摧毁了我的GPA。我的篮球经历仅限于在我的后院单独拍摄篮球,在那里我从来没有运球,推进球或传球。当我尝试为学校团队尝试时,这是一次痛苦和屈辱的经历。我们将留下来。
Our industry has just emerged from its own “Year in the Gym,” a workout characterized by humiliating decisions to right-size our workforce, along with painful endurance and sprint sessions. In these sessions, our shops learned to survive on next-to-no-cash flow and no lead time when we got an order. We also had to somehow get the work out with fewer people and with no cash to get the supplies we needed.
The other morning, I saw a shirt on a person that said, “Pain is weakness leaving the body.” Based on this gym wisdom, our industry has lost a lot of weakness, since we eliminated a lot of waste and redundant capacity.
But what do we do now that we have left the gym, eliminated our extra weight and become lean, mean, competitive machine shops? We need a different approach now that we are outside the gym, rather than the one we used in the gym.
想象。While we were in the gym, our vision was to make it through the current pain and get to the next one. Survival and tolerance of the pain are the visions of the gym. Anything else is an unwelcome diversion to concen-tration and the work at hand.But mere survival is not a vision for success outside the gym and back in the world.
既然您的公司不再在健身房,您的视力如何改变?我们只是有一个PMPA战略计划会议,我们重新考虑了我们的愿景和使命。您是否鉴于公司从健身房的出现并回到一个
“business as kind-of-usual world?” Does your vision coming out of the gym focus on profits or is it still seeing memories of volume to be regained?
Mission.当我们在健身房时,我们的任务是继续前进,并尽一切努力继续前进。显然,消除浪费和不懈的削减成本是一天的顺序。现在我们已经离开了健身房了,也许是时候看看我们是否仍然专注于消除。也许我们的使命现在是对企业的重建。现在,您的公司不在健身房中,我希望您的使命更加与增加价值相符,而不再专注于制造便宜的东西。
Highest and Best Use.正如我发现是一名充满希望的潜在学生运动员,我的“最高和最佳利用”与篮球和其他田径运动无关,我们所有人都知道,我们也摆脱了一些梦想,计划和其他行李在过去的一年中。
We built organizational muscles able to do more work with less. We are able to work more flexibly. And, we created in our culture an attitude of getting to “yes” instead of the reflexive “no, that’s not how we’ve done it before.” Our year in the gym has helped us find our strength, just as it has helped us find our weakness – pain.
什么是我们的core competency?第二,第三和接下来的几个月,近来的订单向我们展示了市场绝对必须从我们那里得到的。这是我们得到的订单。努力看那些订单。您的客户群和市场正在告诉您一个重要的教训,内容涉及他们对您的商店的价值。
您可以添加什么可以增强您将来的价值?“没有杀死我们的东西使我们变得更强大”是一句话,提醒我们,既然我们已经幸存下来并得到了加强,我们需要重新研究我们的能力以及我们想实现的目标。鉴于这个新的机会,我们在体育馆的一年中出现了。我们如何最好地装备自己?
Sales.我还没有遇到一家拥有足够销售额的公司。当我管理一家钢厂时,当我管理一个部门时,当我去商店时,我一直在寻找对运营的限制。瓶颈。减慢活动的事情。通过阅读Eliyahu Goldratt的书《目标》,这种思维方式对我来说是一个简单的教训。
我从未去过一家商店,该商店的订单超出了其能力。直到我们在健身房的一年,我都知道商店的重点不仅仅是积极地追求销售,就像培养现有客户一样。我们在健身房的一年给了我们足够的时间来评估这一点,以作为改进的领域。
我希望当我有一天去您的商店时,您将能够向我展示您的瓶颈确实是运营,并且您的销售订单是您可用容量的倍数。在这种情况下,您将能够帮助您的银行家和供应商在健身房一年半的时间内。
作者注:特别感谢资本加速合作伙伴的兰迪·马基(Randy Markey)的隐喻“体育馆的一年”。