Comments on: Chaos, My Desk and Dilbert

By: beri

beri — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:53:05 +0000

A number of years ago, one of the networks (I think it was CBS) made a rule that employees could not have any personal items on their desks and that their desks had to be completely clean when they left at the end of the day. Needless to say, this rule did not apply to the CEO, who had a very elaborate office with lots of stuff everywhere. The rule may be silly and anal, but I hope it is being applied to everyone, not just the people who cannot fight back.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:08:54 +0000

Throwing out accumulated printer crap makes good security sense, regardless of whether you want to pointlesly instill learned helplessness and management-hatred among your employees in a misguided attempt to earn 10 minutes of fame as a HBR case study.

By: adamo

adamo — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:32:50 +0000

It is arguable whether what Kyocera does is actually 5S or not: http://timebackmanagement.com/blog/the_wall_street_journal_gets_it_wrong_on_5s

By: Mark Graban

Mark Graban — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:54:33 +0000

What was described in that WSJ article was such a misapplication of true Lean thinking and Lean principles, it was disgusting. I ranted about it here on my blog.