They Just Don't Get It!

plant for the company and was recognized as the best manufacturing plant to work for in Montgomery County. This Transformation Represents the Future The Spectrum Brands turnaround demonstrates what becomes possible when manufacturing leaders embrace this new reality. This wasn't about lowering standards or accepting mediocrity—quite the opposite. By creating an environment of trust, transparency, and shared purpose, the plant achieved levels of performance that command-and-control approaches never could. The transformation required every principle you'll learn in this book, working together as a system: Data transparency replaced management secrecy, giving everyone visibility into real problems (Chapter 3). Storytelling with numbers connected daily work to business outcomes that employees could understand and influence (Chapter 4).

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