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Why are four-year-olds the masters of root cause analysis?
Why are four-year-olds the masters of root cause analysis? At around the age of four, not long after we start rattling off simple sentences, our minds are sponges, absorbing as much information as possible. We innately start asking questions about the world that surrounds us, trying to establish the reasons it is the way it […]
NSW RMS Civil Works ITPs
Are you looking for Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs) to comply with New South Wales Roads and Maritime Services Construction QA Specifications (now hosted on the Transport for NSW Standards Portal)? Streamline has a range of ITPs available for the following civil construction activities: Concreting RMS QA Spec R53 Demolition of existing structures RMS Spec […]
If knowledge is power
IF knowledge is power, AND with great power comes great responsibility, THEN with great knowledge comes great responsibility. A note to knowledgeable people: don’t over-complicate situations to showcase your intellect. Use knowledge as you should power, with restraint, discretion and in proportion, to achieve positive outcomes for the greater good. It is a principle we […]
Quality Quote: The fastest way to starve a horse is to assign two people to feed it
Quality Quote: The fastest way to starve a horse is to assign two people to feed it. Author Unknown. The point here isn’t about hungry horses. It is about the allocation and distribution of responsibilities. If one person responsible = one person is wholly and solely accountable. If two people are responsible, the responsibility is […]
Supercharge Smartsheet with the Smartsheet Outlook Plugin
So you have your integrated management system (quality, safety and environment) set up in Smartsheet, but when you receive updated information via Outlook it is a bit of a pain, because you have to: Save the files from Outlook to your computer Open Smartsheet Open the correct sheet/register Attach/upload the files back to the correct […]
Quality Quote “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” is a quality quote often attributed to Peter Drucker, the Austrian-born American management consultant, educator and author. Drucker may actually have been summarising a much earlier quote from William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin):“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, […]
Quality Quote: An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind
Quality Quote: “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” Attributed variously to Gandhi, Louis Fischer, Henry Powell Spring and Martin Luther King. All have offered different iterations, but the principle is the same: violent retaliatory action escalates situations, leaving all parties worse off. For more information on this quote, read the […]
Quality Quote: The art of persuasion is greater than the strength of force.
Quality Quote: “The art of persuasion is greater than the strength of force.” The North Wind and the Sun, from Aesop’s Fables (Perry Index 46). The fable of the North Wind and the Sun tells of a wager between the two, who each argue they are more powerful than the other. The North Wind tries […]
Quality Quote: Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs.
Today’s quality quote: “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steven Paul Jobs: American inventor, designer, and entrepreneur who was the co-founder of Apple Computer who oversaw revolutionary products such as the iPhone and iPad that have dictated the evolution of modern technology.
