360° – The Second Round

A LEAP

So came the LEAP project — and with it, a series of powerful introductions.

• David Brunt taught a two-person team SMED — Single Minute Exchange of Dies

• John Bicheno ran the Numbers Game with eight of us

• Nick Rich and I spent time chewing over TPM — Total Productive Maintenance

• Peter Hines, Chris Butterworth — also involved, shaping thinking

And honestly?
When think back – I realised how lucky I’d been.

I contacted all of them — in the next round of deliberate readers — and they all remembered and

they replied – and those that were able to have read the book!

And having worked with The Manufacturing Institute, it became even clearer — there are just so many companies and practitioners of change I’ve crossed paths with over the years.

It would have been wrong not to include you, Peter Ridding — ex-Leyland Trucks Training Manager.

We shared many a training session.
And no, we didn’t always agree on approach — but that’s what made it worthwhile.

And those leaders I mentioned earlier?
The ones behind genuinely successful businesses?

They’re not listed here.

But you’ll find them, in their own words, soon – here.

Because this isn’t about theory.
It’s about the people who’ve lived it.

There have been so many people that have helped shape the way that I think about change.

Nigel Peters – at the time was Head of Continuous Improvement UK for Ornua Group (albeit he worked in America, Spain, Germany…)

After the first day we met at Leek, when I was working as a Redzone Coach, it was like we had known each other for years.

After a few months however Nigel said one day

“Tim those Good Questions of yours, they are wrong! You are missing the first question Do we see the Issue?” 

And so after many years there were now four Good Questions.

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