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I think it was in researching employee ownership or growth that I first came across and read about Marthas’s Vineyard based The South Mountain Company. From an article SMC owner Jon Abrams wrote in the Journal of Light Construction entitled Taking the Pain Out of Growth I must have googled his company to learn more. [...]

In my opinion Seth Godin is one of the most important thinkers and teachers in the world of business today and I’m sure I’m not alone in that thinking. A couple of weeks ago I bought his book All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World and think it’s [...]

"Tell me how you’ll measure me, and I’ll tell you how I behave" —Eliyahu Goldratt " Tell me how you’ll measure me, and I’ll tell what damn fool things I’ll do to make the measurement look good." —Tony Rizzo " No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is [...]

I’m asked from time to time as to what books I would suggest for a Theory of Constraints – Critical Chain Project Management ‘newbie‘ to read and I think there is a real good one-two-three path for anyone just looking to get started with it. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. [...]

I was reading Jason Jennning’s new book Less is More last night and thought it was neat reading: Chapter 8 —The Real Financial Drivers Q: Why did the accountants cross the road? Answer: Because the client told them to. " Accounting is the enemy of productivity!" So proclaims highly respected management consultant Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, [...]

Here’s a list of great quotes from from The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement that I found via Duke’s Tool Page which is a great starting point for a bunch of web pages full of good tips and ideas on management created by Duke Rohe of the Office of Performance Improvement at the University [...]

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 tension ". This tension can be resolved in two ways. One option is to take [...]