Typically you do not just make changes on your own without running it past management. The process consisted of "Hey Randy, now that we have the chance with the machine being down for several months why don't we get rid of those damn set screws and replace them with 10-32 socket head screws instead. It would be much easier to deal with them if and when they seized up or the heads strip." The response was "Go for it. Damn good idea". No real convincing needed and that machine was originally built with set screws back in the '70's before he was the boss in the dept. That machine was never down for more than a few days at a time in all that time until last fall when we decommissioned another machine and rebuilt this one. THAT was the time to do MAJOR overhauling of everything we could think of. The process started in late September and ended early in the new year. Not something that could be done on the fly a piece at a time.
Oh, I understand HOW you did it.
But it should have been on his list already.
Best advice I ever had on being the boss is,
ask the man doing the job. That bird-dogging flushes the game every time.
Efficiency, (from all angles) is how he’s rated.
Your wording (to convince) can be read more than one way. “To direct his attention”, is better put
as no argument needs to have been formed, thus defended. He should see it instantly.
This ain’t free donuts in the coffee room.
Thus, should he need to be “convinced”,
why is he the boss?
A “boss” is no man at all doesn’t put his neck out to justify labor/tools/supply to his superiors as
morale (alone)
suffices in this instance.
He lacks brains
and conscience, then?
I’ve had men below me fail this two-part test in this same way. It’d be a shameful thing my father, uncles and grandfathers learned of my role as his superior had I prized pennies over spirit.
“A successful business” (etc).
(I very much like the solution offered above to flush set screws. Thx! )
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