A major aspect of business that everyone hates is the wast-of-time junk. Employees hate it, it costs a lot of money and managers dread dealing with it.
It's really not that hard to stop.
Besides walking around and seeing what is going on (a manager can only see a little this way), engage your employees on the work floor or in quality meetings that get them to reveal what is really happening that is a waste and unnecessary.
In meetings expecially, one of the things you can do is to ask questions that releave tension and get people involved. Get people to laugh a little to show that you really do want their input.
One way of doing this is to be so blunt and use words that deep down they are really thinking. For example one of the easy but powerful questions you could ask would be: What are some of the stupidest things that are happening out there? Or what things are we doing that make no sense whatsoever?
When workers hear words like "stupid" and "sense" it does usually cause them to chuckle because they see things that really are dumb, usually before management does because they interact with it every day.
The thing that will cause this to be a success is that you create the atmosphere within the workplace that lets workers know that you are serious about eliminating wasteful, dumb stuff and you really want to know what those things are. Humor is a great way to get them to open up.
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