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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"? (The emphases placed are mine.) I have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]