Engineering leader building something awesome with #kubernetes, formerly @AWSCloud D2IQ/Mesosphere. Always learning.
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"Command-and-control thinkers are obsessed with managing cost. Paradoxically, when managers manage cost, costs go up. But managers can't see how or why because their measures-in-use keep them blind." -John Seddon
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Sam Briesemeister retweeted
I have some pretty choice ex managers that should have this tattooed on them. – at Phoenix, AZ
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This.
Surely we know this, right?
#johtaminen #leadership #system101 #failuredemand #häiriökysyntä #sote
Sam Briesemeister retweeted
"To only optimise and get incremental improvement is not really breaking inertia. You need to figure out how to achieve performance that will force you to break your limitations… To have real breakthrough innovation we should not take our constraints as a given." —Rami Goldratt
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“A problem is worth solving only if it blocks us from achieving our goal.” —Stop Decorating the Fish #tocot
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"Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should." —W. Edwards Deming #quoteoftheday
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If you're really serious about improving speed, you need to look at the entire organizational system—at the "value stream." One fast bit will not speed the system as a whole (though a slow one in the wrong place will slow it down). No isolated practice or technique changes that.
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Picard management tip: Tell the crew where to go. Let them figure out how to get there.
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“In any value stream, there is always a direction of flow, and there is always one and only one constraint; any improvement not made at that constraint is an illusion.” —Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, father of the Theory of Constraints #tocot
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“The primary objective of operation is flow.” —Eli Goldratt #tocot
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"Any system is based on inherent simplicity, in this sense there is no difference between a manufacturing organization and any other organization, including service organizations." —Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt #tocot
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While losing control is a manager’s biggest fear, having control is the biggest illusion. Having next year described with a million budget details might feel comfortable, but “more fiction has been written in Excel than in Word”, as Daniel Pink put it.
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“When quantities increase by an order of magnitude, it is not enough to increase capacity. New processes (of support, control and measurement) are usually needed.“ —Eli Goldratt #tocot
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“[O]ptimization is a process of orchestrating the efforts of all components toward achievement of the stated aim.” — W. Edwards Deming #tocot
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"Our fear of complex systems that drives us to dissect complex system into sub-systems, [which leads] to diverting management attention to chase local optima which are not inline with the global objective." —Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt #tocot