George Stalk Jr.

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2023 by George Stalk Jr. · across every show →

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May 2, 2023 neutral
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Stalk: Batch processing accounts for three distinct thirds of operational waste
“Batches are the result of what people consider to be an economic order quantity, and of that 95% of the time it's wasted, about a third of it goes to being in a batch. About a third of it goes into being in a batch that hasn't been worked on yet. It's been sch…”
George Stalk Jr. May 2, 2023 ▶ 41:58 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
May 2, 2023 neutral
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Stalk: Most Companies Rely on Averages and Do Not Know True Costs
“Well, the one that always works is know your cost better than your competitors know their cost. Because most people don't know their cost. They think they do. They know the cost that gets between the revenues and the profit line. And those are all averages, an…”
George Stalk Jr. May 2, 2023 ▶ 3:50 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
May 2, 2023 negative
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Stalk: Most leadership teams explain away operational anomalies rather than learning
“Anomalies are always a great opportunity to find a new way of doing business, but most management teams don't take the time to understand anomalies. They explain them away.”
George Stalk Jr. May 2, 2023 ▶ 47:37 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
May 2, 2023 neutral
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1980s Japanese Factory Edge Derived From Low Overhead, Not Culture
“And what was really interesting that this isn't in the early 19 eighties, people attributed the Japanese productivity advantage to their culture and to the worker management relations. And if I look what we did, I looked into the numbers, all the productivity …”
George Stalk Jr. May 2, 2023 ▶ 44:14 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
May 2, 2023 positive
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Stalk: Delivering 3x Faster Yields 3x Growth and Double the Profitability
“One that works very well is be faster than your competitors at providing your customers what they want, when they want it, and where they want it. And if a company can do that two or three times faster than its competitors, it'll usually grow two to three time…”
George Stalk Jr. May 2, 2023 ▶ 4:45 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
May 2, 2023 negative
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Stalk: Unmanaged operations add value only 0.5% to 5% of total time
“Most organizations, if you, if we look at the time required to produce an output, either an insurance policy or a manufactured product, if they're not looking at time as a management variable, value is only being added between a half a percent and five percent…”
George Stalk Jr. May 2, 2023 ▶ 40:52 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
May 2, 2023
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Stalk: Strategic Turnarounds Cannot Start with Changing Corporate Culture
“The culture is the hardest thing to change. It needs to be changed. It needs to be changed to S to freeze the benefit of a new strategy. But one can't start there.”
George Stalk Jr. May 2, 2023 ▶ 14:04 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
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