Where does GE stand in the global market?
What are it's earnings?
Some guy said Six Sigma doesnt have anything to do with GE's success...leadership does. Ahem...all "all" of their leaders are promoted from within the Six Sigma community that they have created. If you arent a blackbelt, you arent gonna be leading jack past lower management. That isnt some rote line of text to place on your resume. You either are a Blackbelt or you arent. And if you are...you live Six Sigma in every area. It doesnt hinder creativity. On the contrary, it encourages it...because you know that if the idea makes it through a greebelt workup at the lower level then it is probably gonna fly company wide. GE pushes it's best and brightest towards Six Sigma. The leaders come out of that clique. Tell me if Jeffrey Immelt is a Blackbelt. Tell me if the other two CEO candidates were Blackbelts. Tell me what American CEO built it into the GE system.
The bitter types can rail on it all day long but they cannot remove it from the context of GE's overwhelming success...not just at home but globally.
Ignorance is indeed bliss for a select coterie of FReepers.
LOL
It really is funny to read some of the comments on this thing.
But to do that would require a manager with actual cojones, not unlike the same elusive characteristics lacking in our federal government.
I walked out of the 6s group in front of the CEO, the Executive VP, my director and our client's top brass. The client then chastised the company for not hiring more people like me instead of the Nigerian 6s "expert" who kept droning on and on. Sometimes it pays to be brutally honest.