Episode 1: Seek Perfection is the Flywheel of Continuous Improvement

In this episode of the Shingo Principles Podcast, we hear from Bruce Hamilton with the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership, a Shingo Licensed Affiliate and Shingo Examiner as he shares insights on how seeking perfection creates an environment that guides individuals and organizations to higher levels of enterprise excellence. It accomplishes this in two ways. First, it forces focus on the ideal of perfection; what does it mean for the customer and for the providers? Second, it encourages reflecting on the means by which we seek the ideal. As the flywheel of continuous improvement, this fundamental principle not only sustains improvement, but can also accelerate it. The flywheel, however, is not a perpetual motion machine. At different stages in an organization’s transformation to enterprise excellence, the flywheel must be primed and nurtured against the natural resistance to change and competing priorities for time and resources. 

Key topics covered in this podcast include:  

• Offering a basic explanation of the perfection
• Breaking down the “search”
• Describing the natural resistance to the principle, Seek Perfection, at various stages in an organization’s journey to excellence.

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