Guaranteeing performance

The Daily Drip

You're probably here because you want to improve something.

Yourself? The world? All of the above?

There's a formula that all the fancy 6 Sigma industrial productivity people use.

It's nothing new, but the format is helpful to revisit for structured practice.

It's called DMAC:

• Define what's important.

• Measure how you're doing.

• Analyze what's wrong.

• Improve or figure out what needs to be done.

• Control some of those factors so you can guarantee performance.

Obviously, it's not reasonable to guarantee performance in all areas of life--actually, probably not any.

But the framework is helpful in practicing how we can think about problems and problem-solving.

I think we often forget one or more of these steps in our problem-solving practice in our careers and in our work--I know I do.