Paradigm-360

Lack of Skills and Experience Listed perhaps in an increasing level of importance Trade Skills This is pretty obvious to most contractors but perhaps because it is so obvious it is incredibly over emphasized with is just as dangerous as having no trade skills at all. Often contractors will think this area is the most [...]

From the 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 system, which management created or allowed to continue. Management must [...]

Peter F. Drucker 1909-2005 Many years ago my girlfriend at the time once commented that I was never lonely in that when I wasn’t spending my time with her or someone else I would just go down to the shop and and paint while listening to music or get wrapped up in a book. She [...]

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. [...]

"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 [...]

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 recollections of a topic that appeared in the Journal [...]

I’ve neglected my blogging here for the past few months as I’ve been getting down and dirty working and finishing off a bunch of project I have long neglected or haven’t worked diligently or sincerely on. In other words I been taking what I’ve leaned from from all these blogs and actually practicing what they [...]

From and entry I made in the discussion forums on this site to Bill Amaya topic "What is our CCR?" Hey Bill, it’s great to hear your voice again in here Reading where you said:"The challenge and my dilemma comes when I take a broader look at my company and try to find the one [...]

Okay time for an update, in my blog post last Monday of 6:02 PM as an aside I complained about how long the official NAHB booksore BuildersBooks.com was taking with a book that was supposed to be the official NAHB book on scheduling. Well by Friday I had had enough and called them to check [...]

Okay a couple more blog type thoughts I’ve had today. Been thinking about the concept of Six Degrees of Separation and its ironically come up in a number of places in these last few weeks. And this evenings thought on that subject is relative to blogging and reading blogs. I just checked in to catch [...]