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If an objective is well framed, three to five KRs will usually be adequate to reach it.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Because if you wanted to sail between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans prior to 1914 then you had to suffer a months-long voyage around the tip of South America.
But a Panamanian Canal would allow ships to simply cut through Central America.
The shortcut would make many of the wo... See more
Eventually, this group of ideas formed the core of the now world-famous Toyota Way: •Kaizen: continuous improvement (predating Shewhart but perhaps inspired by Sakichi reading Henry Ford’s book). •Jidoka: the machine stops when there’s a problem. •Andon cord: any worker can stop the assembly line when there’s a problem. •Go to gemba:** the supervis
... See moreJohn Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
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Apple • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
Wilke’s secret to success? A culture of operational excellence—built on lean manufacturing, statistical process control, the theory of constraints, and purpose-built software.‡ Lean manufacturing, of course, came from the Toyota Way, the fusion of Deming’s and Japan’s “East meets West” ideas and practices. Statistical process control, too, comes st
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