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Rick Maurer Tip #73
Lessons from NUMMI. |
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May 17, 2010
Greetings!
Lessons from NUMMI
NUMMI closed its doors on April 1, and sadly, that is no April Fools' joke. NUMMI was a model of what's possible when production processes encourage the initiative and engagement of all employees. For example, two wildly different corporate cultures (Toyota and GM) worked together to build high-quality cars. They took a closed GM plant that had perhaps the worst management-labor relations in America and turned it into a model of real cooperation between management and labor using 85 percent of the original workforce. I find it sad to see NUMMI and what it represents go.
Thanks to Svend Ask Larsen, I learned about a terrific podcast that aired on March 26, just days before the NUMMI closed its doors. You can access the podcast here: This American Life.
If you don't know the NUMMI story, you owe it to yourself to listen. If you do know the story, listen anyway. I found the reminder of their successes inspiring and sobering. Inspiring for obvious reasons, and sobering in that GM (and many others) never learned the lessons NUMMI could teach us.
Making a Compelling Case for Change
I am taking my small booklet, Making a Compelling Case for Change off the market. (Some of the
Special Pricing, Only $8.95 | content will be included in the new edition of Beyond the Wall of Resistance.) So I am selling off the remaining copies at really low prices. I need to clear out the inventory. I know this sounds like a late-night infomercial, but I really am going to take it off the market next month.
Here's a description of Making a Compelling Case for Change:
The most successful changes in organizations have one important thing in common - the people who have a stake in the outcome see the need to change. Our research also found as people's understanding of a need for a change went down, the failure rate went up. Making a compelling case of change is essential - and it tends to be the most neglected stage in the life of a change.
This is a practical little book, perfect for planning teams. It includes: 4 Critical Questions
- Leverage the Levels (of support and resistance) to Make a Compelling Case
- How You Can Tell When You've Made a Compelling Case
- Creating a Culture That Supports Change
- Now You've got Urgency, What's Next?
The book is filled with practical tools like my 5-5 Stakeholder Analysis. In just 32 pages, the book walks you through the questions you need to ask and the tasks you need to perform to make a compelling case for change.
Price:
1 copy $8.95 plus shipping and handling
10 to 100 copies $3.50 per copy plus shipping and handling
over 100 copies the cost is $2.75 per book plus shipping and handling
We will fulfill all orders the first week of June. Just in case we run out, we will be fulfilling orders on a first-come first-served basis.
Beyond the Wall of Resistance
An update. The new version of Beyond the Wall of Resistance: Why 70% of Changes Still Fail - and
Available, Summer 2010 | What To Do About It will be out sometime in mid to late June. We created a fan page on Facebook. You can access it by searching on "Beyond the Wall." Within the next few days I will begin posting excerpts from the new book and many other related resources. And, if you Tweet, consider following me. www.twitter.com/rickmaurer2
Warm regards,
Rick MaurerPresident |
