by Lee Fried, on 20 May 2007 12:15 pm
The Journey
Quote of the Week
“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are: first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.” –Thomas Edison
Yesterday morning I saw this quote hanging in a picture frame at a local coffee shop and for some reason it stuck with me. For the last eight months I have been working with a great team and this quote could really be our motto. Everyone has been working incredibly hard to hold everything together, which has not been easy given the scale of change that is currently in process. I was remarking to my boss last Friday that I can no longer plan more then a couple hours ahead of me, because so many things come up and need to be worked on in the moment.
The team has stuck-with-it even though there have been countless days where we have had to pick each other up and dust off the frustrations of the latest problem. I am learning the art of being patient even though it is against my very nature. It really has been a two step forward one step backward journey thus far.
Yet, every week we seem to be making a little more progress then we did the week before and all of our success is based on simple common sense. Simple in concept and hard as hell to do.
on 21 May 2007 at 11:00 am 1.rob said …
My favourite quote is:
“Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat?
The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity.
People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’”