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188 Quote(s) Found

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As the organization scales agility by descaling the work and the system of work, it is important to ensure that teams with high autonomy also have high alignment.

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By making the system of work pull-based, the work flows at the capacity of the system, revealing the capacity itself which can then be improved.

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All systems experience entropy over time. Due to entropy, doing nothing is worse than standing still; it’s actually going backward.

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A focus only on tooling will have minimal improvement on outcomes if processes, the system of work, and behavioral norms, how people are organized and incentivized, are not changing.

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…insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

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…values should be explicit, because they act like the operating system for a person’s employment, affecting every action and decision they make.

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Working on your business is about building systems. Period.

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By design, flow systems have an everything-works-or-nothing-works quality which must be respected and anticipated.

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The ability to get parts resupplied very quickly from the next level of the system… is always the secret to reducing total inventories in a complex production and supply stream.

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…the primary incentive for working in a lean system is that the work itself provides positive feedback and a psychological sense of flow.

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