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Several companies (worldwide) are temporarily reducing their work hours in order to avoid layoffs.

Massive layoffs not only sacrifice the employees (and their community) but also compromise the most important IP (intellectual property)of any organization, the investment in training, loyalty and competency.

Considering the economic outlook around the world, would you:

A) Accept a reduced work week (and pay) to stay in the company,
B) Accept but initiate job search,
C) Don’t accept (and take the risk and its consequences)
D) Resign / Ask to be layoff

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

There are several reasons why an organization decides to engage into corporate sustainability. The reasons are endless and normally related geographic, demographic and social factors.

Some of the high level reasons are: (not in order of importance)

1) Resource conservation (environment)

2) Work & Life balance (human resource management)

3) Improve stakeholder trust (corporate structuring)

4) Engage with your community (social strategy)

5) Improve standard of living (social commitment)

etc …..

What are the main reasons your organization decided to embrace CS principals (or if you didn’t ….. why should you or shouldn’t you)

Thanks for sharing

Edison Reis

QAM - Quality Assurance Management

As the Iron Man Triathlon comes to town, I was wondering why did they originally chose cycling, swimming and the marathon as the “portfolio of the game.”

Are they the most appropriate sports to be used as a sign of excellence, endurance and worldwide performance?

I am not here to discuss the sport side of things but I was trying to use the same principals to our daily professional lives and business challenges.

So here comes the question ……….

If you had to choose three areas of action (or strategies) to improve a business as a whole what would that be ?

Like the IronMan, lets not think about a short term solutions because after all, this is about an endurance effort to become a class leader or benchmark.

I would give you my shot at it ………… (not in order of importance)

1) Operation performance (product quality, improve efficiencies, reduce waste, improve customer satisfaction, inventory management, lead times, etc)

2) Sales and marketing (Define the appropriate target market and position the products and sales efforts accordingly)

3) Corporate social responsibility (Define and implement short and long term objectives towards employees, community and environment)

Thanks again for your input, time and consideration

All the best

Edison Reis

QAM - Quality Assurance Management

www.QualityAssuranceManagement.com

No ……. I am not a Gennie nor Santa but is time for reflection and to re- energize ourselves for the new year.

So …….. Who would be that person ?

My choice would’ve been ” W.E. Deming ”

Happy Holidays to all

Edison Reis

www.QualityAssuranceManagement.com

Recently I read an article defining the followings as the most important characteristics of a successful and respected leader.

(1) Ethical
(2) Inspirational
(3) Innovative
(4) Dedicated
(5) Knowledgeable

Needless to say that they’re all important …… but , If you had to “reprogram” your own mental OS (operational system) to improve your own professional aptitude, how would you input it ? (by importance)

It was very hard to decide about my sequence but here they are ….

3,2,5,1,4

Please fell free to explain or just giving the number sequence.

Edison Reis

www.QualityAssuranceManagement.com