They Just Don't Get It!

Chapter 7: Line Supervisors

Organizational Duct Tape Picture this: it's 6:30 in the morning and your day-shift supervisor is already on the floor, trying to get a packaging line back up that went down overnight. By 7:00, their phone is blowing up with questions from the warehouse about a missing pallet. At 7:15, they're crawling around with a flashlight helping maintenance chase a hydraulic leak. By 8:00, they're two crises deep and haven't even made it to the daily production meeting-because now a customer complaint landed on their desk. Sound familiar? Here's the thing: supervisors are the most important people in the building, and at the same time, the most overloaded. When you think a supervisor isn't cutting it, it's almost never because they're lazy or untalented. It's usually the opposite-they're drowning in everything except actual supervision.

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