{"id":9476,"date":"2011-11-14T05:43:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2016-09-12T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:45:21","slug":"taiichi-ohno-do-not-act-spoiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-do-not-act-spoiled\/9476\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiichi Ohno Quotes: Do Not Act Spoiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continuing my review of Wakamatsu&#8217;s book on Taiichi Ohno, today we&#8217;ll explore his views on Urgency and how to prevent acting spoiled or how to prevent spoiling your workers. In other words, how to instill a continuous improvement mindset in your workforce.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To read my reviews of <a title=\"book review of toyota mindset\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/toyota-mindset-commandments-taiichi-ohno\/7715\/\">Wakamatsu&#8217;s book on Taiichi Ohno<\/a>, please visit the links below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"standard work, taiichi ohno\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-standard-work-must-be-practical\/9479\/\">Taiichi Ohno on Standard Work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"genchi genbutsu, taiichi ohno\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-validate-truth-on-the-shop-floor\/9477\/\">Taiichi Ohno on Genchi Genbutsu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"taiichi ohno, do not act spoiled\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-do-not-act-spoiled\/9476\/\">Do Not Act Spoiled<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"taiichi ohno, learn from previous masters\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-do-not-fear-failure\/9290\/\">Learn from Previous Masters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"taiichi ohno, wastes\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-wastes-hide-disclose-mistakes\/7850\/\">Wastes Hide, Disclose All Mistakes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"discover truth and understanding\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-gemba-observation\/7852\/\">Truth and Understanding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"taiichi ohno on innovation\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-innovation-add-your-craftiness\/8559\/\">Innovation and Craftiness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"teach others to think\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-teach-others-to-think-for-themselves\/8040\/\">Teach Others to Think<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"process automation, jidoka\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-process-automation\/8329\/\">Intelligent Automation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"taiichi ohno on leadership\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/taiichi-ohno-on-lean-leadership\/9274\/\">Taiichi Ohno on Leadership<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Taiichi Ohno is known to have said the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have such a spoiled way of thinking. Execute your duties with a sense of urgency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In context, he would say the above to companies that had too much work in process. Why? In his mind, Ohno believed that having too much work-in-process makes defects and delays tolerable, and creates an organization accustomed to delays, defects, and problems on the line. In his words,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zero work-in-progress items is the ideal. We must acknowledge the true purpose of reducing them, though. We are not competing for who has the least number of work-in-progress items. If we have too much of it, we will fail to identify problems, that&#8217;s why we must strive to reduce it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Continuing,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reduction of work-in-progress items causes the production line to stop. This does not mean that the reduction was teh cause, it means that there was a serious problem with the shop floor to begin with and that the problem has been hidden due to the abundant amount of work-in-progress items. If we start seeing a problem as a result of reducing such items we must fix it immediately by continuous improvement. Repeating such an effort will enable us to reduce it to zero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, in Ohno&#8217;s mind, work in process &#8220;hides&#8221; problems and is an enabler of continued mediocrity. His goal in reducing WIP was to expose the problems and shine a light on them, which fosters a continuous improvement culture.<\/p>\n<p>His approach to expose problems and to help workers visualize the problems was simple:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Limit work in progress<\/li>\n<li>Limit the number of workers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>By doing both (1) and (2), Ohno believed that it will place workers in challenging situations that will force them to improve their processes and thereby creating a culture of continuous improvement.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1926537114?ie=UTF8&#038;ref_=sr_1_1&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1291241376&#038;sr=1-1&#038;linkCode=shr&#038;camp=213733&#038;creative=393177&#038;tag=sixsigma09-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7716 aligncenter\" title=\"toyota-mindset-taiichi-ohno\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/toyota-mindset-taiichi-ohno.jpg\" alt=\"wakamatsu, toyota mindset, taiichi ohno\" width=\"566\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/toyota-mindset-taiichi-ohno.jpg 566w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/toyota-mindset-taiichi-ohno-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my review of Wakamatsu&#8217;s book on Taiichi Ohno, today we&#8217;ll explore his views on Urgency and how to prevent acting spoiled or how to prevent spoiling your workers. 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