"Bad managers make today worse; Good managers survive today; Leaders
make tomorrow better;
Fit For Service helps good managers become leaders and it helps leaders contribute even more.
It helps companies, governments, non-profits and faith communities
spend less on operations
and more on services."
- Dr. David Childs, Ph.D |
 |
“There is immense operational waste in the world's organizations. Clearly, immense beneficial
investment in the world's current and future condition could occur if there was a commitment to identify and reduce
the waste, then invest the savings into clean water, basic education, pre-natal care and other chosen methods to
dramatically enhance humanity's future. Organizations and humans can create a symbiotic relationship in which each
provides the other the opportunity to actualize.”
- David Childs, Ph.D October 4, 1999 |
|
The mission of Fit For Service (FFS) is to reduce the percentage of resources that are spent on
operations/processes so that more resources are available for services. |
|
To help organizations become more efficient and effective, reduce their waste and increase
their profits, so that they might invest a portion of their new surplus to worthy philanthropies. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“The high corporate mortality rate seems unnatural. No living species suffers from such a discrepancy
between its maximum life expectancy and the average span it realizes. Why do so many companies die young? Companies
die because their managers focus exclusively on producing goods and services and forget that the organization is a
community of human beings that is in the business, any business, to stay alive.”
- The Living Company, Arie De Geus
"An organization is not merely a robotic, bureaucratic assembly line, or cubicles, or end product;
it is a living, changing teeming mass of human and mechanical cells that combine to form a living organism. Just as
humans have a brain/nervous system, organizations have computer systems. Just as humans have a musculoskeletal
foundation, organizations have desks, chairs, cubicles, file cabinets. Just as humans have cholesterol, organizations
have lawyers and auditors."
- Fit For Service, David Childs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
M.E.C.A: The four cornerstones that help your organization
create and sustain a successful atmosphere and culture.
FIT FOR SERVICE: Provides 81 specific recommendations for
improving your organization's daily processes. |
| The Author, David Childs Ph.D. |
|
Before becoming CEO of Fit For Service, Dr. Childs led government agencies for 25 years,
where he developed the Fit for Service concepts. As a result, his agencies earned 5 State of Texas and
4 national recognitions for quality management, and have been visited by 5 international delegations.
Dr. Childs speaks at numerous conferences and seminars, teaches MBA courses in Systems Thinking and in
Transformational Leadership, and is an examiner for Texas Quality (Texas' Malcolm Baldrige Award).
Organizations that Dr. Childs has led or advised have ALL experienced
improved productivity of 25-60%.
Dr. Childs is married to Alice Canham, who is a fundraiser and sings in a professsional choir. |
|
|
