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The Tipping Point

August 26, 2018 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Tipping-Point

According to Gladwell, the tipping point is the moment at which “an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire..” Recently, HRB was engaged by an ESOP. An employee stock ownership company (ESOP) is an employee-stock owner program that provides a company’s workforce with an ownership interest in the company. [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Process Management

The One Best Way

November 12, 2017 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Industrial workers grinding in manufacturing plant.

Sunday’s sermon was about the workers and the vineyard, Matthew 20:1-16. “A landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement, Process Management, Production Systems

Great Moments

February 9, 2016 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

“Great moments are born from great opportunity.” Family businesses often do not recognize great opportunity. We get satisfied, but what is satisfied? In today’s business each unit must practice continuous improvement. Success can be a reality. Be careful its effects are temporary. Often in small business, Family Owned Business, Women owned businesses and even big [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement

3 Thoughts on Object Permanence in your Family Business Culture

April 11, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

  Standards in the Family Business Jean Piaget was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called “genetic epistemology”. One of Piaget’s theories discusses objective permanence. Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement Tagged With: business culture, continuous improvement process, family business, management, Object Permanence

Things that Get Measured

November 25, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

The next time tells you we don’t make anything anymore in the USA; invite them to a take a foundry tour.

The next time tells you we don’t make anything anymore in the USA; invite them to a take a foundry tour. What gets measured gets done. — Tom Peters A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement, Process Management Tagged With: Foundry, Iron Foundry, Problem, Root Cause, Root Cause Analysis, Tom Peters

Family Business and Chaos Theory

September 2, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

Chaos Theory ... if we look closely enough at the randomness around us that patterns will start to emerge

  Family Business and Chaos Theory. Our Team continued to work at the family’s manufacturing plant. Improvement is difficult without stability. Do you know anything about the chaos theory? It has to do with fractal mathematics. A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Process Management Tagged With: business consulting, Chaos Theory, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, family business, Patterns, process management, Process Stability, Process Variation, The Goal

Top three Reasons for Tempo in Family Business

April 11, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Family Businesses need tempo. They need conduct their process so it neither rushes nor drags. Family businesses need to use tempo to gain gaining effectiveness and mobility.

  Family businesses need tempo. Generational businesses have a rhythm a pace and often need an allegro fast, quickly, bright . Tempo is defined as rate of pace. In music Tempo is is the speed or pace of a given piece. Going too fast or too slow is referred to as “rushing and dragging.” In [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement Tagged With: family business, Initiative, Tempo

Does your Business do Lookahead planning?

December 9, 2013 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

... a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows ...

  Lookahead planning is an often overlooked phase in project/program management. Many times Family businesses do little look-ahead planning.  Lookahead Planning establishes a way forward, a schedule, based on input from the stakeholders, that creates realistic guidelines to meet the objectives of the project. Evolution is a relentless process that seems to keep going and [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement Tagged With: business, High Point University, Lookahead, planning, Project Evolution

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