How is your production doing?

"We have all had these or similar conversations:

Question: "How was production today/yesterday?"

Answer: "Good!"

Follow up question: "How much did we/you produce?"

Answer: "A lot!"

This conversation is not producing anything, it is just pumping air. You know where I am going with this. If you want to have more than feel-good small talk you need to quantify properly.

A better answer would be: Production was good; we produced 145 units, which is about 5% above our average output. This involves more than just randomly naming a few numbers. "

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