Six Sigma ruined my life

[Anonymous]

Its so so true, there was an article I read last summer that told the real Six Sigma story, its amazing that big companies still use Six Sigma! Yeh the creative inventive Companies could care less about all the metrics BS!!

Picking apart Six Sigma is a waste of time. You need to see it as an opportunity for career advancement. Learn the lingo and the basic tools. The two will bring you job opportunities that pay well. As long as someone is willing to pay you to do the work, why do you care if they don't receive a return on their investment. I've completed a number of projects that have never brought the payback that was promised, yet the opportunities to do more projects keep rolling in. Six Sigma is far better than reallocation and experience within Lilly will bring opportunities outside of Lilly. Stop acting like you're part owner in this company. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Think of it as a treasure hunt and grab all you can before the opportunity is gone.

 

[Anonymous]

Picking apart Six Sigma is a waste of time. You need to see it as an opportunity for career advancement. Learn the lingo and the basic tools. The two will bring you job opportunities that pay well. As long as someone is willing to pay you to do the work, why do you care if they don't receive a return on their investment. I've completed a number of projects that have never brought the payback that was promised, yet the opportunities to do more projects keep rolling in. Six Sigma is far better than reallocation and experience within Lilly will bring opportunities outside of Lilly. Stop acting like you're part owner in this company. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Think of it as a treasure hunt and grab all you can before the opportunity is gone.

Grabbing hands
Grab all we can
All for themselves
After all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts
In large amounts

--Depeche Mode

 

[Anonymous]

Grabbing hands
Grab all we can
All for themselves
After all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts
In large amounts

--Depeche Mode

If you don't grab it, someone else will. You can life with it or without it. Your choice. Winners chose to live with it. Our leadership team here is trying to set the example, but some of you just don't get it.

 

[Anonymous]

Grabbing hands
Grab all we can
All for themselves
After all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts
In large amounts

--Depeche Mode

If you don't grab it, someone else will. You can live with it or without it. Your choice. Winners chose to live with it. Our leadership team here is trying to set the example, but some of you just don't get it.

 

[Anonymous]

Grabbing hands
Grab all we can
All for themselves
After all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts
In large amounts

--Depeche Mode

If you don't grab it, someone else will. You can live with it or without it. Your choice. Winners choose to live with it. Our leadership team here is trying to set the example, but some of you just don't get it.

 

[Anonymous]

Depeche Mode? What a loser.

 

[Anonymous]

Depeche Mode? What a loser.

You're a excellent example of why Lilly never should hire anyone with only an undergrad degree.

 

[Anonymous]

Has anyone obtained a yellow belt?

The Order of The Garter of Sidney:YELLOW belt in the front, BROWN belt in the back.

 

[Anonymous]

Six Sigma is the old "Performance Excellence" Lilly had 20 years ago, except now what use to be taught to any level employee interested in excellence in their work in a one week training course, takes a Harvard grad WEEKS to understand and hour upon hours to explain the tools and process to a regular employee.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038409.htm

Now Nardelli's successor, Frank Blake, another General Electric (GE ) alumnus, is dialing back on the Six Sigma rigor, giving more leeway to store managers to make decisions on their own. The story unfolding at Home Depot echoes closely what's happening at 3M after James McNerney's reign. There are signs of a similar pullback at many companies, even at GE, where CEO Jeff Immelt is trying to reprogram his management ranks to innovate around a theme of "ecomagination," with mixed success. And at Young & Rubicam, where GE board member Ann Fudge flamed out as CEO after she tried to sell ad execs on Six Sigma.

So has the Six Sigma moment passed? "I think it has," says Babson College management professor Tom Davenport. "Process management is a good thing. But I think it always has to be leavened a bit with a focus on innovation and [customer relationships]." The discipline was developed as a systematic way to improve quality, but the reason it caught fire was its effectiveness in cutting costs and improving profitability. That makes it a powerful tool—if those are a company's goals. But as innovation becomes the cause du jour, companies are increasingly confronting the side effects of a Six Sigma culture.

ONE SIDE EFFECT -low employee moral

JL INNOVATION SHOULD BE OUR FOCUS - IT DOES NOT MIX WITH SIX SIGMA - GET THE METRICS - SEE FOR YOURSELF

 

[Anonymous]

For many of us in the consulting world, six sigma is our bread and butter. I really don't appreciate the way many of you are portraying this vital business methodology. Sidney chose Six Sigma, because his Lilly colleagues were too incompetent on their own to make the simplest of process changes. Six Sigma gave him the tool to make change in spite of the weak leadership that was rampant throughout the organization. Lilly's leadership is the problem, not Six Sigma. Six Sigma at Lilly is failing only because its leaders lack a fundamental understanding of business. Lilly leaders who have spent their entire careers at Lilly lack the basic skill sets to lead and implement change. At this point, Lilly's only hope of survival is to be sold off in pieces so that outsiders can make the changes necessary for future growth.

 

[Anonymous]

For many of us in the consulting world, six sigma is our bread and butter. I really don't appreciate the way many of you are portraying this vital business methodology. Sidney chose Six Sigma, because his Lilly colleagues were too incompetent on their own to make the simplest of process changes. Six Sigma gave him the tool to make change in spite of the weak leadership that was rampant throughout the organization. Lilly's leadership is the problem, not Six Sigma. Six Sigma at Lilly is failing only because its leaders lack a fundamental understanding of business. Lilly leaders who have spent their entire careers at Lilly lack the basic skill sets to lead and implement change. At this point, Lilly's only hope of survival is to be sold off in pieces so that outsiders can make the changes necessary for future growth.

You my friend are stark raving mad. Which "pieces" would anyone want?

It's too late. Some glam HR folks stole the show, sorry, charlie.

 

[Anonymous]

Six Sigma is the old "Performance Excellence" Lilly had 20 years ago, except now what use to be taught to any level employee interested in excellence in their work in a one week training course, takes a Harvard grad WEEKS to understand and hour upon hours to explain the tools and process to a regular employee.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038409.htm

Now Nardelli's successor, Frank Blake, another General Electric (GE ) alumnus, is dialing back on the Six Sigma rigor, giving more leeway to store managers to make decisions on their own. The story unfolding at Home Depot echoes closely what's happening at 3M after James McNerney's reign. There are signs of a similar pullback at many companies, even at GE, where CEO Jeff Immelt is trying to reprogram his management ranks to innovate around a theme of "ecomagination," with mixed success. And at Young & Rubicam, where GE board member Ann Fudge flamed out as CEO after she tried to sell ad execs on Six Sigma.

So has the Six Sigma moment passed? "I think it has," says Babson College management professor Tom Davenport. "Process management is a good thing. But I think it always has to be leavened a bit with a focus on innovation and [customer relationships]." The discipline was developed as a systematic way to improve quality, but the reason it caught fire was its effectiveness in cutting costs and improving profitability. That makes it a powerful tool—if those are a company's goals. But as innovation becomes the cause du jour, companies are increasingly confronting the side effects of a Six Sigma culture.

ONE SIDE EFFECT -low employee moral

JL INNOVATION SHOULD BE OUR FOCUS - IT DOES NOT MIX WITH SIX SIGMA - GET THE METRICS - SEE FOR YOURSELF

jl here, I don't think you understand. I am doing very well. Thank you.

 

[Anonymous]

jl here, I don't think you understand. I am doing very well. Thank you.

This is really, really funny! I would laugh, but it might be the most accurate account of CEO's perspectives these days, especially here at Lilly. Our BOD are a joke.

 

[Anonymous]

This is really, really funny! I would laugh, but it might be the most accurate account of CEO's perspectives these days, especially here at Lilly. Our BOD are a joke.

My metrics say that you'll take the first voluntary buyout offered.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Six Sigma Sandy Harry

Ok you have to catch this about Harry the famous author of six sense business coaching. His wife who has been utilizing my wives legitimate cleaning business solicited her cleaning girls to work for them direct. These girls have almost ruined our business by taking a good chunk of our customers. These people have no idea what soliciting businesses workers do to a hard working expensive business.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Six Sigma Sandy Harry

Ok you have to catch this about Harry the famous author of six sense business coaching. His wife who has been utilizing my wives legitimate cleaning business solicited her cleaning girls to work for them direct. These girls have almost ruined our business by taking a good chunk of our customers. These people have no idea what soliciting businesses workers do to a hard working expensive business.

You think that's bad.... how about the cleaning ladies that solicit something even more special after hours in the C suite?

 

[Anonymous]

I'll never forget the early days of s.s. at Lilly.... "but this is what MOTOROLA does"...

so what? I thought, they make freaking cell phones.

And look where they are now, techno-carrion at the mercy of the massive techno-vulture google! Layoffs happening in wave after wave.

All of those gung-ho six sigma champions...

FLUSH.

 

[Anonymous]

Selling yourself is corporate whoring, and some of you are good at it. Sell your soul, sell your grandmother if you have to. It's all about grabbing, getting, more of everything, never enough.

You losers equate money with happiness. What sorry humans beings you are.

 

[Anonymous]

Selling yourself is corporate whoring, and some of you are good at it. Sell your soul, sell your grandmother if you have to. It's all about grabbing, getting, more of everything, never enough.

You losers equate money with happiness. What sorry humans beings you are.

Sorry, but I don't have time to listen to your whining. The wife and I are taking our new Lexus up to Fishers to look at our new luxury home that is being build. Then we're off to look at new furnishings. Can't put dirty old furniture in a new house. Some of our old stuff is nearly 4 years old. Plus the 5 car garage will give the kids a place to park their new entry level luxury cars. Life's a buck, so spend it.

 

[Anonymous]

Yes. All those THINGS make a person happy!! Too bad you need to take so many drugs to be happy. And wifey needs to knock off the cocktails and pills.

So does the snotty brat who never worked a day in his life.

Soulless, mindless consumerism.......

Hard to know whether people like you for you, or your money....