The Blog that
Simplifies Productivity

The Blog that Simplifies Productivity

Things that Matter for Excellence

Happy New Year!  I wish you all the very best for the year ahead. In this first newsletter for 2024, I don’t want to talk ...
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Perspectives

With two teenage sons who are learning to drive, I get to sit in the passenger seat quite a lot these days. This provides a ...
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Freedom Within the Framework

During my working-holiday in Sri Lanka earlier this year, I caught up with one of my high-school friends who is now a captain with Qatar ...
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4 Countries in 2 Weeks

This is not a brag post. I’ve just landed in Shanghai after being to Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka over the last 11 days. While ...
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Customer or Business needs first?

Recently, I needed some documents printed over the weekend and went to my local office stationery & equipment store – most Aussies would recognise these ...
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5 Seconds 3 Answers

The first weekend of Oct was a long weekend for us. So, we took the opportunity for a family get away, making full use of ...
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Taking the wrong exit

There’s a new Motorway (M8) in Sydney which makes my trips to the airport even faster. In a recent trip, I had an early morning ...
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Change it: Mix it: Spice it up

During a recent flight, I was asked a question by a flight attendant that certainly got my attention. On a 6:30am domestic flight after the ...
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Drifting to the left

We just returned from a short family holiday at the Gold Coast (to our international readers, it is a popular beach-side holiday destination). One morning, ...
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With all the technology, we still miss the point

With all the technology, we still miss the point

I try to streamline all processes associated with domestic business air travel. It helps to reserve my energy for more important things during the day. ...
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5 Gears to always maintain momentum & traction

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been exploring a simplified framework on how to improve productivity in our personal lives. We’ve adopted tools, techniques ...
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Being in the flow

We are familiar with the four stages of developing a new competency: unconsciously unaware; consciously unaware; consciously aware; and unconsciously aware. I’m living through this ...
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Cost of Delaying

The cost of delaying

I seem to have hit a patch of bad luck with my recent interstate travels: the flights that I’m on are frequently getting cancelled or ...
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Stop The Barista

One morning recently, I was in a queue for a coffee. I was observing the process and noticed that they had systemised it quite well. ...
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Engaging Shopfloor Teams

If there is ever a need to improve our shopfloor team engagement, it’s now!  Why? In my conversations with Supply Chain leaders every week, I’ve ...
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Lean Accounting – how does it add up?

Have you heard the joke regarding our affinity towards numbers? “There are three types of people in the world. Those who can count and those ...
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Stop Being so Harsh

We are generally good at coaching, mentoring, and advising others. We tend to be kind, generous and forgiving. However, when it comes to critiquing ourselves, ...
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Have you actually improved

How many business improvement initiatives have you started, only to find yourself in one of the following scenarios a few team meetings later: •   ...
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When everything is urgent

A few years ago, as I was speaking with the production scheduler of a manufacturing client, something caught my attention – printed production paperwork on ...
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What inefficiencies are you hiding?

I was travelling last week and had a restaurant/pub meal with colleagues one evening. As I was picking up my meal, a set of pre-packed ...
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Productivity lesson from cricket

A Productivity Lesson From Cricket

My younger son loves to play cricket. Recently the (main) summer season ended but my son enrolled for a winter season tournament – he just ...
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Grow the Business Not Complexity

As a business grows, things get complicated and complex. Many businesses find the bottom-line margin going down, as the top-line goes up, due to a ...
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More Product But Less Productivity

Australian manufacturing is at its lowest point ever at just 5.6% of GDP. It used to be over 30% in its heyday in the 1960s. ...
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“Will it make the boat go faster”

Ben Hunt-Davis – former Olympic Champion Rower On Sunday Sep 24th 2000, exactly 20 years ago today, the British rowing team lined-up their boat in ...
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How to Speed up and Calm down

We all want to get more things done in less time, both at work and at home. We look for productivity hacks, apps to jump ...
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The Business Game

Like it or not, business is a game—well, that’s how I see it. The leadership team of a business defines and sets the boundaries, the ...
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The Two Paradigms That Holds Us Back

‘World-class is a journey’ – we’ve heard it, I believe in it, and I’ve seen companies putting this into practice.  While it is a useful ...
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Perfecting on (near) Perfection

Last weekend, my wife and I made a quick trip to Brisbane – no, it wasn’t a romantic getaway, just some property matter to attend ...
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3 Approaches to Prioritise Practically

Last week, I shared a universal framework on how to identify improvement opportunities – areas, activities and tasks where we are wasting resources in business ...
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5 Tips to Improve Productivity

My article on the Weekend Australian
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Excellence Simplified

Supply Chain Excellence, Operational Excellence (OpEx), World-Class Manufacturing – a few terminologies used to describe frameworks that help organisations continually shift performance year-on-year.  Each year, ...
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Being in Flow

I’ve appeared on stages, podcasts, newspapers, radio and industry magazines over the years, but last week I had the opportunity to be interviewed for TV ...
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The Business Maturity Paradox

I learnt something important during my first annual performance review as a Manufacturing Manager with a multi-national company, more than a decade ago. Measuring the ...
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The Art of Achieving it All plus More with Ease

In my previous newsletter I shared the overarching ‘universal’ framework to improve productivity and performance, at work or home; 1) Identify, 2) Prioritise and 3) ...
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The 5 syndromes that prevent us from achieving excellence

There’s never a dull moment in manufacturing, right?  I understand - I’ve been in roles where I had to sleep with the phone next to ...
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Establishing Effective Virtual Team Huddles

Over the past few weeks virtual team meetings have become the new norm for many business teams. So much so, that some are experiencing zoom ...
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Work On Your Business And Self

My younger son loves to play cricket. Recently the (main) summer season ended but my son enrolled for a winter season tournament – he just ...
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Visual Communication Gone Wrong

I made my first domestic flight to Melbourne this week in 15 months with almost the same level of excitement when I got onto a ...
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What inefficiencies are you hiding?

I was traveling last week and had a restaurant/pub meal with colleagues one evening. As I was picking up my meal, a set of pre-packed ...
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