Wisdom on a wall

On the drive to my grandparents house is Triumph, a modular building company. There is a large wall of text, literally, which I’ve been meaning to check out for weeks. I finally stopped in the lot to figure out what was being expressed. Here’s the quote in full as follows.

“Make your workplace into a showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.”

Triumph: redefining modular

Breaking down this paragraph, I would highlight that “immediate” is the most important concept here. We could twist the phrasing here towards the direction of lean methodology, in which frequency of iteration is more important than foresighted planning.

Constant feedback and raw honesty seems to be the impetus of this company.

In my own work life, however small and gig-like and casual, I should seek this authenticity in my own ways. Whether this means pay transparency or more guiding movement from my bosses, I could stand to be mindful of this concept of constant improvement: i.e. by means of clarity and specificity of what is really going on at the ground level of operations.