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Saying What Needs To be Said
In early February 2005, I was called to an ‘emergency’ meeting with the 11 other “Corrective Action Managers” from our nuclear fleet. I have no recollection of WHY we were summonsed to Atlanta in the first place. What I do recall is that it was apparently necessary...
Never a Good Reason
Mark Twain said, “There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.” You’re staring at your third work week of 2018. There’s a gap between where you are and where you want to be- most likely many gaps. Considering your most pressing one, you very...
IMPLEMENTATION: The Pathway™ to Sustainable Performance Improvement
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 015. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. In 2007, I sat across from Bill, the Director who had made previously made a decision to improve performance using an approach no one had heard of before. I...
Good to Great (Revisited)
Monday, 15 January, 2018 "Good to Great" Revisited Today is Day 15 of 2018. If you’d invested a penny on New Year’s Day, and your investment doubled each day since, today you’d make $163.84. Leaving your desk this Friday, looking forward to weekend golf, time with the...
My Excuses are Awesome
Ever get excited about the new year? I’m not talking about ‘resolutions’, I’m talking about REAL anticipation- WHAT you’re gonna do. How MUCH [weight] you’re gonna lose. How MUCH [money] you’re gonna make. The new year offers a brand new [fresh] start, right? The...
DISRUPTION: OWN Your Role
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 014. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. RESULTS ARE ALL THAT MATTER. This has never been more true than it is today- and will only be MORE TRUE tomorrow. So- think about your…yesterday. Did you do...
LEADERSHIP: Same ‘ol Situation
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 013. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. Hey everybody. I trust you’re having a great day! I know I sure am, BUT…I have a bit of a ‘bone to pick’ in this Episode. You know, despite tons of effort,...
PERSPECTIVE: Miracle on Okuma Beach
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Practicing Perfection® Comes to Law Enforcement
Practicing Perfection® Comes to Law Enforcement LAS VEGAS, January 13, 2014 – The Practicing Perfection Institute, Inc. (PPI) has combined forces with DEA Supervisory Special Agent (retired) Bob Catinazzo to bring next-level human performance strategies,...
Finally: Tangible Insight for Rapidly Transforming Organizational Culture
Finally: Tangible Insight for Rapidly Transforming Organizational Culture 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...
PPI Documentary wins Telly Award
PPI Documentary Wins 2014 Telly Award LAS VEGAS, October 21, 2014 – The recently released documentary, “Practicing Perfection®,” has won a 2014 Silver Telly Award. The video, in competition with nearly 12,000 entries from across the US and numerous other countries,...
Esperanza
Tim Autrey Produced Documentary “Esperanza” wins Emmy® Award For Outstanding Topical Documentary Dec. 5, 2013 – Film production company, CelebrityFilms®, is proud to announce that they recently received an Emmy® Award for the short film documentary, “Esperanza.” The...
Tim Autrey to Executive Produce New Documentary Film
Tim Autrey to Executive Produce New Documentary Film Human Performance Expert Tim Autrey To Executive Produce New Documentary Film Tim Autrey, human error elimination expert, is contributing to new documentary as Executive Producer. Orlando, Fla. – August **,...
Tim Autrey featured in documentary
Tim Autrey featured in documentary Human Error Expert Tim Autrey To Be Featured In Documentary Human Error Expert Tim Autrey has been signed by CelebrityFilms™ to be featured in a documentary. Filming is set to begin this week. Swanzey, NH. – CEO, author and...
Tim Autrey on Brian Tracy Show
Tim Autrey on the Brian Tracy Show – Tim Autrey, Founder and CEO of the Practicing Perfection Institute, Inc., was recently an expert guest on The Brian Tracy Show. Best-selling author Brian Tracy, one of the country’s leading business minds, hosts the show that was...
LEADERSHIP: My Favorite ‘F Word’
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 011. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. In 1905, a third-class patent clerk in Switzerland wrote four scientific papers in which he detailed a theory- a “special theory” involving space, time, and...
HPT- Technology vs Psychology
What does “human performance” mean to you? Most organizations who’ve begun to tread this performance improvement pathway either refer to “HPI” (Human Performance Improvement), or “HPT” (Human Performance Technology). Whatever you call it, any effective organizational...
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: Behaviors
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 010. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! In this episode I’m wrapping up my coverage of the discreet elements of your formula for next-generation Human Performance. As I...
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: How to Prevent Analoculitis and the Rear View Mirror (RVMS)
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 009. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. When I drive my car, unless I’m backing up or looking to change lanes, I spend most of my time watching through the windshield- continually assessing what...
REPS Special Report
Click here to download your own printable version of this Special Report. "The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." -Albert Einstein Overview Albert Einstein. In addition to solving the mystery of quantum...
LEADERSHIP: How to STOP Being COMPLICATED and RIDICULOUS
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 008. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. Welcome to Episode 8 of REPS radio.com! In the last episode, Episode 007, we talked about “What the [heck] is Human Performance” [anyway?!]. You heard me...
What [the heck] is… “Human Performance”?!!
This is a Transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 007. To listen to the Podcast or download resources, Click Here. Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! On REPSradio.com, I have, until now, focused specifically upon YOU- as a leader, as a practitioner…as a rainmaker of positive...
LEADERSHIP: Business Imperatives
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 006. To listen to the Podcast, Click Here. Are you a “fire-fighter”? No, I’m not talking about one of the brave souls willing to run into burning buildings to save you or me from a blazing inferno. If you are such a hero-...
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: How to Reduce the Costs of Human Error (4 Simple Steps)
This is a transcript of REPSradio.com Episode 005. To listen to this Podcast, Click Here. Have you ever attempted a “half somersault”? Think about it- stopping mid-stream through a heals-over-head rollover? You’d likely get hurt. I can’t imagine anyone doing this on...
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: Forget “Excellence”
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...
LEADERSHIP: Are you Telling the Truth?
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....
LEADERSHIP: What do you WANT?
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...
LEADERSHIP: Are you playing to WIN? Or are you playing not to lose?
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...
It Gets Your Attention (and…Merry Christmas!)
"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...
The Box Checkers
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...
How Can I Possibly Focus on…Everything? (Part 2- Transcend…)
"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,...
How Can I Possibly Focus On…Everything? (Part 1- A Revelation)
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...
Cutting the Andon Cord
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...
The Sirens of Performance Improvement
“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...
Finally: Tangible Insight for Rapidly Transforming Organizational Culture
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’...
Here’s to the Crazy Ones- the Ruckusmakers
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....
(Survey Results) The Greatest Current Challenges to Performance Improvement
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...
What’s Wrong with Pursuing Excellence?
“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”...
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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...
Things to Avoid (part deux)- the “Shiny Box Syndrome”
“People will do anything to cure a trouble, but little to prevent it. -Claude Hopkins I continue to be baffled by the over-reliance of organizations upon software programs designed to accumulate data on the errant performance of…people. Decision-makers are...
Things to Avoid [Part I]- “Analoculitis”
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...
It’s ‘Counterintuitive’
I just returned from Santiago, Chile. There is a restaurant in the financial district on Av Isidora Goyenechea called “Tiramisu”. Suzette and I ate there three times in one week. Why? They served the best pizza I’ve ever had in my life. The BEST pizza I’ve ever...
From WHAT to HOW
Are you stuck in the WHAT at the expense of the HOW? In man’s early efforts to fly, he attempted to mimic the best practices of the best fliers. He crafted wings made of feathers, strapped them to his arms, jumped off a [cathedral] and flapped like crazy. When earlier...
A Tribute to My Hero
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...
Thank you, thank you, thank you…
“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...
BRIEFING #5: Cultural Hypnosis
“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...
BRIEFING #4: History Does NOT Repeat Itself
"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…...
BRIEFING #3: It’s [ALL] in the Marketing…
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...
BRIEFING #2: Getting Paid to Do it Right (The ROI of Human Performance)
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...
BRIEFING #1: Third-Dimension Thinking
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...
What is Your “Next Level”?
Here is a question of great significance for your future: If you and I were having a conversation 18 months from now, looking back over those 18 months, what would have had to happen in order for you to feel happy about your progress? Why is your answer to this...
The Best Way to Predict Your Future
As your pace of life and work continues to accelerate- As government regulation, global competition and uncertainty continue to rise- As demands upon you accelerate while the means to get things done seem to stagnate or diminish- There is a fundamental truth available...
This is Why We Do What We Do…
The wreck of the Costa Concordia... Four miles off course. So far, eleven confirmed dead, 23 still missing... "It must've been an extraordinary sequence of events..." (video link) Here are a few of the comments from Pier Luigi Foschi Chairman and CEO of Costa Cruises:...
Family, Friends, Love, Giving, and…Gratitude
To our dear friends and colleagues... 2011 has been very good to us, and it is my fond hope that it has been very good to you as well. As we turn off our computers and head to our homes for the holidays, we at PPI want to wish you a very Merry Christmas, Happy...
CHOICES
"THEY never listen anyway- I chose not to open my mouth." "I had to rush the pre-job brief...we were behind schedule." "We had no choice but to discipline the person." "I had no options- THEY chose to do it this way." FACT: The choices you make dictate the life that...
Thank You
On October 3rd, Abraham Lincoln began his proclamation of an official day of thanksgiving… “The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we...
Calculating Return on Investment (ROI)
Can you see a solution to your organization's current safety / human performance issues, but simply cannot get the attention (or approval) of senior leadership? There's one (very) common denominator that speaks to virtually every senior leader / decision-maker in...
Your Most Valuable Commodity Pt. 1 (think…ROI)
I'd been taught (and believed) for years that our most valuable commodity was- time. After all, "there are only 24 hours in a day," right? Well guess what- the earth rotates at the same speed for all of us. A shocking revelation. Just because you have someone in a...
Natural Laws
Reality: No matter how smart, dedicated, or good lookin' you are, if you step off a cliff- you're [very likely] to get hurt. It's a Natural Law. It's called gravity. It applies to everyone on planet earth...equally. Just like natural laws, there are Natural...
“It’s not practical”…
In 1988 I was developing (and presenting) Operator training programs at a nuclear generating station in Louisiana. My [highly technical] development tools at the time included pencil, paper, scissors, and tape. Those of us with keyboard skills knew that having access...
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