by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 29, 2023 | Marketing, Sales, Systems & Systems Thinking
“Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.”― Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 28, 2015 | Lean Thinking, Systems & Systems Thinking
Scott Sedam writes another great article on lean implementation in the building industry… Process Perils & Profit
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 13, 2014 | Leadership, Lean Thinking, Productivity, Systems & Systems Thinking, The Little Lessons
A great Deming-ism I just stumbled across in my old notes from a Scott Sedam article How To Get Smart from the 7/11/2000 issue of Professional Builder: Deming lamented that our companies and our country were becoming so obsessed with job skills that we were turning...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 6, 2007 | Management, Systems & Systems Thinking
In the Critical Chain Project Managment Yahoo group that I am subscribed too I just read a great post by Michael Carroll that I thought everyone here might benefit from reading. The topic his post was in response to was How common is it to have "No plans"?...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 23, 2005 | Systems & Systems Thinking
From the now extinct Dharma-Haven.org website a good explanation of one of W. Edwards Deming’s lessons for us: SYSTEMS The people work IN a system. The job of a manager is to work ON the system, To improve it, Continuously WITH their help. Workers work in the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 24, 2003 | Lean Thinking, Systems & Systems Thinking, Theory of Constraints
As part of the continuing Theory of Constraints Learning Process and the Lean Journey my companies and the companies I consult with are on, I came across another interesting (PDF) article as part of some research I was on. The article that I found dusted off...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 13, 2003 | Books, Systems & Systems Thinking
Peter Senge author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization on “Creative Tension”. Creative tension : When we hold a vision that differs from current reality, a gap exists, which the author calls, ” creative...
