Floor It! Ten Ways To Rev Up Your Company's Driving Force
What makes a company great? After all, management trends come and go, economic conditions fluctuate and market demands shift. Corporations restructure and new owners take over. The one constant, the one enduring truth, is that people define the character of a company. They always have and always will. Motivated, passionate people make the difference between ho-hum mediocrity and extraordinary performance. Figure out how to access that motivation and ignite that passion, boys and girls, and you've got yourself a winner. People are the heart and soul of any business. Give them something to rally around and nurture the driving force that separates ordinary work from extraordinary work, and you can reap a culture of excellence. This is true whether you have five employees or 5,000. It is not a new idea, but it is one that too many leaders consistently forget. And in the new millennium, forgetting this fundamental truth can be fatal.
So how can you stoke the driving force at your own company? 1. Remove the glass panes. A customer of Cummins Engine Company, a western truck fleet, was experiencing frequent engine failures. Evidence suggested that the drivers were responsible for abusing the engines, and that the abuse was occurring shortly after the vehicles left the company's home terminal. When Cummins investigated, it discovered that the dispatchers, hidden safely behind a large glass pane, were taking their sweet time compiling the drivers' trip tickets. Furious about this seemingly deliberate foot-dragging, the drivers would storm out of the dispatch room and vent their frustrations on the trucks. The company removed the glass pane in the dispatch room. It totally transformed the relationship between drivers and dispatchers. Often invisible barriers between people are the root cause of performance problems in business. The driving force is stifled. 2. Four of the most powerful words in the world are "I need your help." A friend of mine bought a Cummins distributorship in St. Louis, Missouri. He needed to make significant improvements, however, and was out of money. Together, he and I cooked up a plan.
As the spoiler is usually high above ground and unobstructed for good airflow, it fulfils basic requirements for good reception. Racing cars use the spoiler structure for telemetry communications. Sometimes regular hatchback cars contain a spoiler, into which VHF-antennas for sound and TV broadcasting, GPS-antennas and nowadays Car-2-Car Communication antennas can be easily integrated. Of cause it is also possible to apply telephoning and satellite broadcasting SDARS antennas into spoiler structures. When there is no sportive spoiler but the design aspects require invisible antennas, the antennas can be placed into the screens. Here the slot antenna concept is used, which requires some development but once the structure is found, it is easy and cheap to manufacture. Usually the rearwindow is used when the engine is in front, offering the maximum distance from spurious emission noise. In rare occasions where the engine is in the backside of the car, e.g. Porsche 911 model, then the windscreen is used. However, the antenna structure shall not effect visibility then.
Alternatively sidewindows can be used for antenna structures but often they are too small for multiple antennas and VHF-antennas. As foil- and fractal antennas became popular for mobile phone antennas, this concept has also been applied to the car industry. Today we find fractal foil glued antenna structures in rearview mirrors, e.g. garage door opener, car entry systems and Bluetooth- / WLAN antennas, just to name a few. Light trucks and SUVs comprise some large side mirrors, in which even low frequency antennas can be placed, such as for FM-reception on VHF bands and mobile telephoning systems. The only disadvantage is that in a case of an accident with damaging the side mirror, the wireless service can be damaged as well or reception becomes poor. In order to avoid a complete loss of service, either both side mirrors can be equipped or a combination with other antenna locations can be used. The side effect of this method is that multiple antennas can provide better reception. This method is known as diversity reception.
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