¶ The Importance of Integration and Competency
Okay, this could be the most important safety moment I've ever done. Music. Hey everybody, Todd Conklin, Pre-Accident Investigation Safety Moment. It's those short little moments that we share, those special moments. You have them all the time, and we have them on the podcast as well. Well, here it comes. You can't have, crap, I forgot the word. Oh, you can't have, I'm keeping this in. You can't have integration without competency.
Let me say that again, because Lord knows I made this as dramatic as possible. You can't have integration without competency. So when people say, how do we integrate these new ideas? What applied skills? What's one thing a company does in order to make this successful? And those are all really good questions, and we get them all the time. They're normal questions. I think it's really important to remember that integration doesn't exist.
It can't exist unless you have competency in the organization to do these new things. One more once, the idea of first principles becomes vital to understanding how to make change. We have to have the fundamentals in order to integrate those fundamentals into operations. And that's where everything's heading. I mean, that's where we want things to go.
We want these ideas to not only change safety, but quality, production, operations, finance, finance, any of the critical things we manage in our organization. But we have to have the foundation. Just think of it. I mean, I think this is a really important idea, and I've been trying to think of ways to capture this for a long time. And finally, somebody said it to me just the other day, and I thought, Eureka, that's it. You can't have integration if you don't have have competency.
That's the moment for today. Short and sweet, but vital. That could be one of the most important things I've ever said. And I don't say that many important things. Learn something new every single day. You did today. Have as much fun as you possibly can. Be good to each other. Be kind to each other. And for goodness sakes, be safe. Music.