Ep.319 - First Stabilize, then Optimize!

You cannot improve on chaos. Everything thrives in stability and standards, and you cannot have continuous improvement unless you stabilize first. If today is a five, tomorrow is a two, and the day after is a seven, you are not improving. You are just bouncing around in chaos. Cleanliness, organization, safety, just-in-time deliveries, and Takt planning are not about being nice or fair. They are about creating the stable foundation you need before you can optimize anything. When you strive for perfection, you get good. When you strive for good, you get okay. When you strive for okay, you get bad. And when you strive for bad, you go out of business.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why you cannot have continuous improvement without stability and standards first
• The real reason Jason wants cleanliness, organization, safety, deliveries, and Takt planning (to stabilize before optimizing)
• The S-curve analogy: pushing the ball uphill from bad to okay to good to perfect
• Why good is the worst thing you can be and why you need to strive for perfection
• How the labor shortage will force construction to get smarter and leaner with the workers we have

If you are good at your job or you run good jobs, that is the worst thing you can be. You have to stop being good and start striving for perfection.

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· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

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· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw