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Don't Just Fix It, Improve It

Join James Emery on his transformative journey of lasting change. While his story has been fictionalized to protect both the innocent and the guilty, his struggles and breakthroughs are based on real-world client experiences and will resonate with anyone who has tried to improve reliability.

James Emery faces the challenge of balancing his roles as a husband, father, and plant manager at Modern Products Manufacturing. When a serious accident occurs at the plant, leaving several people injured, James feels deeply responsible. This incident becomes the catalyst for drastic changes in both his personal life and his career.

In his relentless pursuit of lasting change, James encounters numerous mistakes and missteps, faces opposition from his subordinates, and deals with pressure from his superiors. To overcome these challenges, James builds a shadow network of employees who support his plans. As he strives to create a safer workplace for employees and satisfy his superiors with improved performance, James begins his journey towards the Precision Domain.

Level 5 Leadership at Work

In this compelling sequel to Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It, James Emery continues his transformative journey. Following his remarkable success at improving the Modern Products Manufacturing Atlanta site, James has been promoted to Reliability Champion at the corporate office. He is now tasked with improving all of the Modern Products Manufacturing sites.

Throughout his journey, James encounters site managers who resent his involvement, others who appreciate the help but lack leadership skills, and various obstacles that threaten to derail his ambitious company-wide change effort on which his career success depends.

Will the Atlanta site continue to improve and sustain the change, or will it regress while James focuses on other sites? Will James succeed in his company-wide change effort? These questions and more will be answered as James embarks on a heartfelt journey, discovering how Level 5 Leadership at Work can guide an entire organization into achieving lasting change.

Defect Elimination | Principles, Steps and Framework

Discover the intricacies of implementing a Defect Elimination process, complete with real-world examples from an experienced professional who has successfully navigated this journey.

Transforming Culture with Defect Elimination

Learn how a defect elimination program can address the smallest, most troublesome issues in a plant, empowering everyone to take an active role in enhancing daily work life by eradicating those irritating “bugs”. This process fosters a robust culture of continuous improvement, garnering widespread support for reliability initiatives at all levels.