An estimate of the dollar cost of a manager’s time, including overhead, is about $100 per hour. So a meeting involving ten managers for two hours costs the company $2,000. Most expenditures of $2,000 have to be approved in advance by senior people—like buying a copying machine or making a transatlantic trip—

All production flows have a basic characteristic: the material becomes more valuable as it moves through the process.

Shifting the mix of a manager’s activities from those with lower to those with higher leverage.

To get leverage this way, you first need to create a flow chart of the production process as it exists.

Your next key indicator is raw material inventory.

If performance appraisal is difficult, interviewing is just about impossible. The fact is, we managers have no choice but to perform the interview, no matter how hard it is. But we must realize that the risks of failure are high.

There is no question that having standards and believing in them and staffing an administrative unit objectively using forecasted workloads will help you to maintain and enhance productivity.

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Moreover, if we want to cultivate achievement-driven motivation, we need to create an environment that values and emphasizes output.