Tag: Suggestions

Fall in Love with the Problem, not the Solution: In Entrepreneurship...

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I'm looking forward to reading the new book by Uri Levine, the founder of Waze. It's titled: Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the...

HBR Article on Avoiding the Futility of Suggestion Systems

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Burris has a new article on the Harvard Business Review website: “Employee Suggestion Schemes Don’t Have to Be Exercises in Futility” In my own work and travels, it’s hard to find anybody who has good things to say about suggestion boxes...

Louisiana’s Online Suggestion Box Will Fail; Connecticut Lean Efforts Might Not

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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...

Weekend Fun: Where Good Ideas Go to Die

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There's a funny cartoon over at ONEFTE.com about suggestions and employee ideas. The post is titled "Where good ideas go to die." One time...

Suggestion: Make Suggestions (U.S. Government Poster from 1945)

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I'm not sure if this poster was associated with the Training Within Industry program or not, but it's a World War II era government...

You Can’t Force Suggestions

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There was a question on the NWLean email list about suggestions, in the context of The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen, reading in...