The British cycling team went from worst to Olympic champions by fixing one small thing at a time: helmets, wheels, frames. The same kaizen approach works for companies stuck with unclear goals and messy structures. Results take time, so you have to believe in the plan before you see them.
Now, in closing for me, I, I was thinking about the British bicycle team. Okay.
And the British bicycle team went from worst to first. Yep. And they did exactly what you were talking about. They actually looked at what everything was wrong, you know, with that bike, with the team members, from the helmet to the spokes, to the wheels, to the actual frame. And over the course of a year, they addressed each one of those things. So you could actually input, okay, I don't have a plan. I need to have an MBO. I don't know what my pods are. So think about that, right? But they fix each one of those things over the course of the year. They went from worst to first and they won the Olympics.
And it takes some confidence because, you know, a couple months into that, you're just not going to be getting the results yet. And it's human nature to think, am I an idiot? Am I not doing the right thing? Should I change course? And you just have to have that confidence that you're on the right course. And I think that's a lot of the value, just knowing this is going to work. We just got to stick with it.
