You go, girls! Thirty fitness buddies are exercising themselves dotty. On the chart shown above, fitness buddies launched their goals and feedback for fitness. Buddies wrote their first names into a square, claiming it for their self-posting of points earned during a month. Their checklist of fitness behaviors they perform to earn points include keeping a food diary, hiking, playing [...]

  Poka Yoke.   You think, "Isn’t that the video game my children play?"  No, that’s Pokemon, "Game Boy" game with cute animated characters.  The challenge of that game is to train your Pokemon (pocket monsters) to do non-lethal battle against other Pokemon.    Poka-Yoke is the Japanese term for "mistake-proofing."  Like the video game, the challenge is to [...]

“Don’t allow more than five minutes to elapse in a meeting without writing something on a flip chart.” This is a gem from Russell Justice, international quality consultant for Eastman Chemical/Kodak (retired) and co-founder of The Transformation Network. After five minutes in a meeting, Russell asks the question, “What are we saying here?” and writes down [...]