Promo Episode 71: Manufacturing is a Source of Wonderment

Speaker 0 00:00 This week on make it right. I'm mining 40 years of manufacturing leadership for great stories and tips from my guest, Peter Gibbons Speaker 1 00:09 at the success or failure of manufacturing plan is the fact that the people who know best, how it really operates, what really happens on the day to day, other people on the floor and the supervisors. And so as leaders, if you can create a transparent, open two way communication flow where you're genuinely interested in improving things, solving problems, making things better, then you'll find those things though if you're doing, if you are kind of command and control, you know, push, push, push to get volume, uh, people give up telling you things cause you're not going to fix them and they never get to you and you're trying to solve the wrong problem. So the best plants are the ones where people are open to understanding how does it truly work and what are the things that get in the way of people making the plant run faster, better hit schedule, create better products, better quality, right? First time. And I have always remembered Annie. I had flown in from Cleveland to visit that plant, and her approach approached you was to show me that they'd redesigning this process, but then also how worried I was. And I laughed because I thought, there are so many things. I don't know. I've got to make sure that people can talk openly about the things that get in the way of from doing it. Good Speaker 0 01:24 theater Gibbons career spans, leadership roles in coffee toy and paint companies, and he shares some great stories this week. Gone make it right.