This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 004. To listen to this Podcast, Click Here. Hey, hey, hey…welcome to Episode 4 of REPSradio.com! As we just heard, “Any way you want it- that’s the way you need it!” Here’s your question for this episode: HOW do you REALLY...

This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 003. To listen to this Podcast, Click Here. Welcome to REPSradio.com, the online broadcast that challenges YOU to be a better, more effective, more productive YOU. <<>> In this Episode, we’re getting very REAL....

This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 002. To listen to this PODCAST, Click Here. Welcome, welcome, welcome…to the second episode of REPSradio.com! The hard-hitting show, where I give YOU insights, perspectives, and tools you can put to IMMEDIATE...

This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 005. To listen to this Podcast, Click Here. Welcome to REPSradio.com! I’m Tim Autrey, and I am honored to be your host- your host for an online podcast whose sole purpose is to help YOU achieve quantum levels of...

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wiser, so I am changing myself." -Rumi Four days before Thanksgiving. Room 7018. West Tower- REX (UNC) Medical Center in Raleigh, NC. An oncologist, a urologist, an internist, the hospital general...

You’ve likely experienced them. You might be dealing with one or more of them right now. You might even…be one (gasp). What's a "box checker"? We've been given an extreme case of ‘box checking’ (and its consequences) through a VERY well-known 2,000-year-old story. The...

"It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong." -Valentine (from Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia) Are you a leader? Interesting query to consider (unless your name resides at some elevated level on your company org chart,...

In the world of Performance Improvement (PI), it appears we’ve worked ourselves into quite a ‘pickle’. While doing my research for our latest Special Report (REPS: Next Generation Performance Improvement), I came to a stark realization- in spite of massive resources...

The Toyota Production System, often more affectionately referred to as “TPS, is built upon a set of underlying principles, embodied in what became known as the “Toyota Way”. This ‘system’ is largely responsible for the company that Toyota has grown into over the past...

“Next, where the Sirens dwell, you plough the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please.”               -Homer (The Odyssey) Have you ever left port on a ship and traveled into the open sea? Casting off, you head outward, slicing smoothly yet...

HOW TO Swiftly and Sustainably Grow a Just Culture, Safety Culture, and High Reliability CHEYENNE, WYOMING, June 30, 2015 – At long last, the corporate myth that organizational culture change is ‘hard’ and ‘takes a long time’, has been officially busted. The ‘how to’...

Today would have been Steve Jobs’ 60th birthday. In his honor, TODAY is the first official Ruckusmakers’ Day, being celebrated all over the world. Here’s a [very] partial list of Ruckusmakers… Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Martin Luther King had a dream....

The Practicing Perfection Institute, Inc. (PPI) recently offered a survey to nearly 5,000 performance improvement practitioners involved in safety, error reduction, quality, efficiency, and/or productivity. The survey asked a single question: “What is your greatest...

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” –Voltaire I’ve been scoffed at by the leaders of “Centers of Excellence.” Been cast aside by those launching “Corporate Excellence” initiatives. I’ve even been called a “heretic”...

After a day of pre-Christmas shopping this past Sunday, my wife and I returned just after 7PM to a dark (and growing colder) house.  It was 17deg F outside; down to 52 inside.  Our generator had already been scheduled to be repaired…the next day.  Being the brave and...

There are (2) predominant pitfalls into which organizations plummet in their efforts to improve human performance.  See if this one sounds familiar to you... It's called ANALOCULITIS, and it is currently at epidemic levels in many sectors. ANALOCULITIS defined: Gross...

Ray Autrey 11/12/23 - 01/01/13   One of the things that each of us must face at some point in this thing called life, is its end.  Many of you are aware that my dad, Ray Autrey, has always been my hero.  He was my hero not because of what he did, but because of...

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” ­ - Cicero  If you’re in the United States, it’s time to turn off your monitor, and head home to what’s most important.  And as I prepare to end my week and do the same, on...

“There’s not a single one of you who’s ever had an original thought.” When I was in high school, my US Government teacher (yes, such study was required back in the day) told our room filled with twelfth-graders, “There’s not a single one of you who’s ever had an...

"History does not repeat itself.  People repeat history." It’s been written about and generally accepted for centuries that…history repeats itself. Polybius (ca. 200-118BC), an early Roman historian, was one of the first to proclaim this observation. And look around…...

This is the third of a SIX-PART BRIEFING SERIES to help you bust through barriers you might be confronted with as a performance improvement (PI) professional. During a meeting in Denver last week, I told a team of senior leaders, “It’s all in the marketing.” This may...

This is the second of a SIX-PART BRIEFING SERIES to help you bust through barriers you might be confronted with as a performance improvement (PI) professional.  Have you ever KNOWN... that something was the right thing to do and simply could not get the...

Note: This is the first of a SIX-PART BRIEFING SERIES to help you bust through barriers you might be confronted with as a performance improvement professional.  Each BRIEFING will build upon the previous BRIEFING(s).  Stick with them, grab the parts that make sense to...