{"id":9683,"date":"2021-08-19T08:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/?p=9683"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:59:50","slug":"building-a-quality-culture-extreme-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/building-a-quality-culture-extreme-ownership","title":{"rendered":"Building a Quality Culture: Extreme Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9684&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/tag\/quality-culture\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">series of blog posts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> digging deeper into the seven keys to building a quality culture, which builds on Nicole Parker&#8217;s <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/7-keys-to-building-a-quality-culture\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">introduction blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In this article, we will discuss the fifth of these seven keys; Extreme Ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can Lack of Ownership and Accountability Kill?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2015 book \u201c<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gradesfixer.com\/blog\/books\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme Ownership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, fundamentally transformed how leaders can think. They describe how extreme ownership helps teams perform at the highest levels by translating what they have learned as U.S. Navy SEALs operating in the worst of warzones for the business world. As a quality professional, I have always kept an eye on the behavior of the military in both their product qualification regimen and the processes they develop for extreme situations. While many of us certainly operate in theatres where product quality can result in injury and loss of life, the military is arguably the ultimate theatre for testing people, process and product. If you have not read \u201cExtreme Ownership\u201d, it is a worthy read and one that has changed how I think, how I lead and how I follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the Concept of Extreme Ownership?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The adjective &#8220;extreme&#8221; is very purposeful and important. For me, it signifies something beyond the ordinary, above the norm or exceptional&#8230;we cannot achieve exceptional quality without being an exceptional organization. So how do we become an exceptional organization? I believe that answer lies in many of the concepts of extreme ownership (EO).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is extreme ownership? Extreme ownership includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Involving the team<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Risk planning up front<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking responsibility for your team&#8217;s failures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giving the team credit when they succeed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Actively reflecting to learn and improve from successes and failures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making a safe environment for people to ask questions, convey risks, admit their own failures and have them focus on reflecting and improving<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why extreme ownership? It is a tool to radically change the way we lead and the results we produce as leaders and team members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I have written in my prior blogs, building a culture of quality is no easy feat, and the recent recalls and tragedies prove how elusive it is. I believe instilling EO in an organization will facilitate that culture shift to help us produce higher quality parts with lower cost. This is our mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leadership Commitment and Accountability<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme ownership has to start with ourselves. As leaders, our behaviors are contagious, even the bad ones. There is evidence that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders. Good leaders do not use excuses, they just figure out a way to succeed. They deny their ego and act with humility to see their errors and acknowledge their own weaknesses. They have the courage to make difficult decisions under pressure. They take responsibility for failure, but give praise to the junior leaders and team members upon success. They never blame, but always seek to reflect and improve. These are all things we can do to help build a culture of quality, but let\u2019s dig deeper into leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to teach our teams &#8220;Why?&#8221;. When we give the team a mission, how often do we tell them why we are doing it? For that matter, does your team truly know why they exist? \u201cWhy?\u201d gives us a reason to believe in the mission. Actions supported by beliefs are very powerful. Think about the battles you have heard about where a group was massively outnumbered, yet they won seemingly against all odds. Most of those situations I attribute to the belief in the mission. You can see it easily in volunteer organizations, not just the military. People who are passionate about their cause, will move mountains. Just look at the <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t2t.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tunnel to Towers Foundation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the massive number of mortgages their contributors are able to pay off. Just this month the founder is walking 500 miles for the cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the team understands the \u201cWhy?\u201d, we need to describe the details of our requirements and the desired outcome(s) must be stated clearly, then we must engage the team in the planning process. This will allow us to set new standards in performance &#8211; in essence a culture of quality shift. Unlike the military, however, there is often more time to plan and react to the business battlefield because it doesn\u2019t change as rapidly. In the private sector, there is more time to determine risk and brainstorm solutions, likely scenarios, etc. to find the absolute best solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another piece of the leadership puzzle is creating a safe space for our teams so they are comfortable asking clarifying questions, improving the plans, seeing and mitigating risks and even making mistakes. This means their ideas will be considered, dialog is encouraged, to not only extract the very best ideas, but to immerse the team in the mission planning so they are familiar and have inherent ownership in it. This is exactly what we want in a culture of quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identify Priorities, Plan and Efficiently Take Action<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we have discussed in prior blogs, this is the preventive phase. When planning, we need to identify our highest priorities. These are often the highest risks to a mission or the need to avoid or mitigate likely, undesired scenarios. This sounds like <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-5-phases-of-apqp\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to me. Planning will prepare us to focus on our highest priorities when situations get tense. If we keep our priorities in mind, we can stay one or two steps ahead. Taking time with the team to envision likely scenarios will allow us to plan for contingencies and keep the team aware of them so they can put those into action without hesitation. To me, this is the risk-based thinking that ISO and other standards organizations have recently adopted to focus on results, not simply compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the planning stage, focus on keeping the mission simple, clear and concise. This will enable the plan to be communicated, understood, and ensure the team understands the leader\u2019s intent so the team can easily adjust based on conditions on the ground without compromising the intent of the mission. They must be simple enough that your weakest member can understand and execute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As leaders we need to see the bigger picture and keep an eye on battlefield conditions and if they change, priorities may need to change. If they do change, inform the team and adjust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the junior leaders, clearly articulate their decision-making authority and set expectations that they communicate with senior leadership to recommend decisions outside their authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once we have planned and communicated it to the point that the team understands the mission, goals, target outcomes, and leader\u2019s intent, we can decentralize command. We can break the team into small groups with leaders for each group. Now we have a group of teams well armed to carry out the mission with little need for input &#8211; we have a culture of quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLeading Up\u201d the Chain of Command<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a phrase Willink and Babin use to talk about how we can lead our superiors by effectively conveying critical information for decisions to be made. Leaders also discuss their mission up the organization and push situational awareness up the chain of command &#8211; shared understanding of the environment and the strategy and most importantly, to better allocate leadership support by building awareness and confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Effective Execution<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the execution, we need to support every team member of every team. This means we look at the whole organization, we don\u2019t do things in our department that will increase risk or undue burden in other departments. We must work together so all teams gain ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay calm, take inventory, reprioritize often and then tackle them in priority. Be decisive amidst uncertainty &#8211; gather the best information you can in the time you have, assess the situation and take action.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debriefing, Reflection and Continuous Improvement<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a mission, one of the most important practices you can put into place is a post-operational debriefing. This is a reactive step to reflect and ask the team probing questions like: What went right? What went wrong? How can we adapt to be more effective? This is a great practice to do as a team to help continuously improve processes and future risk management strategies. We have been doing this for years and we become better with every iteration &#8211; and it builds a sense of community in the team.\u00a0 It sounds an awful lot like a cross-functional team working on a <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/effective-corrective-action-system\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">corrective action system<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traits of an Effective Leader<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cultures can only make significant shifts with good leadership focusing on planning, execution of the mission and a reflective process after the mission. Jocko Willink identifies the Dichotomy of Leadership in \u201cExtreme Ownership\u201d which is a good summary of effective leadership traits as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confident but not cocky.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Courageous but not foolhardy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Competitive but a gracious loser.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attentive to details but not obsessed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strong but have endurance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A leader and a follower.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humble but not passive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aggressive but not overbearing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quiet but not silent.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calm but not robotic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logical but not lacking emotions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Close but not so close with troops. They must not forget who is in charge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Able to execute EO, while exercising Decentralized Command.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we practice extreme ownership, we will see our team members also practice EO and raise our collective standards. There is a quote from Jocko Willink that resonates with me. He said, \u201cDiscipline brings freedom.\u201d It is interesting that if we can constrain ourselves with discipline in our behavior, we will ultimately be given more freedom because people can trust our discipline. If we build these behaviors in ourselves and our teams we can build a <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/tag\/quality-culture\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">culture of quality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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