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The Don’t Quit Poem

By Ron Pereira - September 3rd, 2010

I absolutely love this. Enjoy. Oh, and if you’re reading this on an iPhone or via RSS reader/email you’ll likely need to click through to the site.

5 Ways to Improve Your Teaching Skills

By Ron Pereira - June 28th, 2010

Have you ever been forced to listen to a monotone, boring, and oh so irritating instructor teach a class? I’m guessing most of you are nodding your head up and down. Well I have and can tell you one thing… it hurts. A lot! But it d

What Are Your Thoughts About Toyota’s Situation?

By Ron Pereira - January 31st, 2010

As regular readers of this blog know, I am not a big “news” reporting guy. In other words, I rarely read a news story and then bang out an article around it since, honestly, this type of writing bores me beyond words. But, unless y

UK Folding Plug – Brilliant Innovation

By Ron Pereira - November 11th, 2009

As a frequent traveler to the UK I can definitely appreciate this device. It’s simple, yet profound. I am not sure if it is available for purchase yet… but if it is I plan to buy one next time I fly across the pond. Wha

Your Important Feedback Requested: A Simple 2 Question Survey

By Ron Pereira - October 26th, 2009

I would really appreciate your thoughts on this simple, 2 question survey that should take less than 30 seconds to complete. A big thanks in advance for your time and valuable insight! Click Here to take survey

Kaizen – FastCap Style

By Ron Pereira - September 28th, 2009

If you’d like to see kaizen in action, and I do mean real kaizen, you need to set aside around 23 minutes to watch this video of the FastCap team improving the way some items are packaged. As an aside, FastCap has been practicing

Toyota Stock Watch: Edition 1

By Ron Pereira - May 17th, 2009

John Hunter recently commented that he owns some Toyota stock. And since I value John’s wisdom I decided to take a look at the TM chart to see what it looked like. Now, before I go any further, let me be crystal clear… I am not off

Web Design and Control Charts

By Ron Pereira - April 23rd, 2009

I used to check my website stats several times a day. I’ll admit, I had a problem… but I’m guessing most bloggers have similar issues when first starting out. Well, I’m happy to say that I now check my website

Does Spiderman Save?

By Ron Pereira - April 18th, 2009

While it has nothing to do with lean or six sigma this was just too good to not share. My 4 year old daughter recently asked my wife, “Mommy, does Spiderman take away the sins of the world?” Sure, they ‘cost’ a

Leadership Standard Work

By Ron Pereira - April 3rd, 2009

Did you know that 50% of all leaders are below average? It’s a fact. With this said, a good friend of mine recently asked me what I thought the Standard Work document would look like for a “Leader.” In other words, if you could l

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