Tag: Suggestion Box

This Bloomberg Businessweek article caught my eye: "How to Get More Respect From Your Boss With Less Work." It's a misleading headline, almost as...

The Denver jail and its suggestion box program made the local news, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request: "9 quotes from Denver Jail...

In our Healthcare Kaizen books, Joe Swartz and I have tried to make the case that the Kaizen style of continuous improvement isn't just a...

Last Thursday, Joe Swartz and I presented about "Kaizen Coaching" at the annual Shingo Institute Conference. In the start of our breakout session, I made...

One  of the big arguments given for "Lean Government" efforts are the cost savings that are generated by various Lean projects at local, state,...

I'm a critic of traditional suggestion boxes since they are usually garbage cans for ideas. Boxes collect anonymous complaints (not good), and managers often...

The Lean Enterprise Institute recorded this short video while we were at the recent Northeast Shingo Prize conference. Thanks to them for doing this...

This announcement caught my eye recently: "New site lets you tell your boss anything, anonymously." A startup's website allows you to send anonymous ideas or...

Last week, I found and read an article, "Whatever happened to the company suggestion box?," that makes some really great points about the problems...

Here is the fifth in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos  from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team....

I love employee ideas and continuous improvement, but I really dislike suggestion boxes. As I've said, they are well intended, but the whole suggestion...

I saw this article the other day on BusinessInsider.com: "10 Predictions For How The Workplace Will Change In 2012." Two of the predictions caught my...