Watch Fighter Pilots Excel - They Shop Their Skills From The Cockpit To The Boardroom
Winning fighter pilots have a watch and learn phrase that separates winners who twisted, turned, sped then braked until they could watch their enemy combatant shoot past them in horror, get him square in front, line, fire; spin away quickly from his brothers getting a bead on you from behind, swing wildly out in their midst, climb, circle and began again. From ancient dog days with Snoopy and the Red Baron, this was the classic dog fight and has rather gone out of fashion at the present, more our side's space age jets being fired on by their ground to air missiles from isolated retreats. At any rate, you might want to remember their mental agility as well as their physically perfectly shaped bodies make them men among men, our chosen best, and they have a plan code. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Observe: their rapid watch and into action behaviors have been described in corporate terms, as some of these pilots have applied their successful life saving, and killing, activities from the cockpit to the boardroom. So, I first have us listen to their talk, and then my comments will follow each of their technical talk; which makes me feel as if we are all computer chips. As studies show, across most businesses, time spent to complete a service and deliver to the customer is only a fraction of time spent in less productive ways to make this happen. During the 95 percent of the time a product or service is not receiving value while in the value system, the product or service is waiting. The Observation: companies that attack the consumption of time in their value-delivery system experience remarkable performance improvements. To me that says that most systems, and most of us, could be way more efficient. Orient: the experts say that the waiting time has three components, the "3/3 Rule". Time is lost waiting for for: 1. completion of the batch a product is part of: 2. completion of the batch ahead of the batch; 3. management to get around to making and executing the decision to send the batch to the next step of the value adding process. Generally the 95 to 99.95 percent of time lost divides almost equally between the three categories. The Orientation: Growth rates of three times the industry average with two times the industry profit margins are achievable". Again, we do see it, chaos in the process of getting us widgets all in formation, bosses making decisions way too late, excuses, over runs. Decide: I prefer when these studies look at a specific subject such as efficient Finnish forestry companies that can deliver computer paper to stores in America with the vast forests of Canada next door. Several recent articles deal with several manufacturers of wood products from the woods of Finland to refined products, and how they have fended off inexpensive Asian labor and high duty from the vast Russian forests nearby and closed to them by massive Russian tariffs. Yet Finland delivers bargain printer paper to us in Canada and America. How they can do this and make huge profits, we discuss in a series of articles coming. Act: Again, these studies watch the inspiring case of self survival by Finland; forests once long ago depleted, the vast forests of Russia nearby closed to them. This quick response time to specific orders from customers, and their streamlined systems that had the unions cooperate with the forest giants to shut small, isolated, unproductive mills, with government and corporate cooperation helped re educate and find new jobs for those affected. With cooperation of industry, unions and all levels of government, all were re trained and found better jobs in a more central town where the most up to date mills, or cell phone factories keep a northern people living a high standard of living, and adjusting, as change happen, forests regrow, Finland adapts. We could learn from people who long ago chopped down all their trees, have learned to nurture them back for a life for all. Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act loop them back to trees: it works. Derek Dashwood |
