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That’s Quotable [George Buckley]
Jun72007 Filed under: That's Quotable Author: Tony Morgan"You cannot create in
that atmosphere of confinement or sameness. Perhaps one
of the mistakes that we made as a company—it’s one of the dangers of
Six Sigma—is that when you value sameness more than you value
creativity, I think you potentially undermine the heart and soul of a
company like 3M."
George Buckley, CEO of 3M as quoted on BusinessWeek.com (June 11, 2007)
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Tony Morgan is a pastor and the Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church where he develops creative solutions for communications, technology and NewSpring Ministries--the church's ministry that equips other church leaders.
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John DeBoer
June 7th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I’m afraid I have to disagree with George on this one. Tools like Six Sigma are for measuring the repeatability of a process, not for creating the process itself. There isn’t any reason why an organization can’t be creative and then employ methods like Six Sigma to make sure their innovative methods are being knocked out of the park.
It’s like comparing palm trees and sweet tea.