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The conventional idea of a career progressing up a ladder toward general management, with more and more direct reports, now needs replacement because the value stream doesn’t benefit.
|
279 |
 |
Revolutionaries are often poor managers of the new order once it is put in place.
|
314 |
 |
…the value stream manager develops the vision for the product, determines the Current State of the value stream, and then envisions the Future State.
|
321 |
 |
Most managers accept the intellectual proposition that improvement is never finished.
|
323 |
 |
It really is possible to continue improvements indefinitely for the same value stream.
|
326 |
 |
…recessions are precious things because they shake conventional wisdom, even complacent lean wisdom, and motivate managers to make hard choices.
|
336 |
 |
…cleaning up after someone who makes a completely gratuitous and unnecessary mess is always irritating. Having a full-time occupation cleaning up after such a person can only breed resentment.
|
041 |
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There will always be a certain gap between blueprints, schemas, and plans and their real-world implementation; therefore, there will always be people charged with making the necessary adjustments.
|
044 |
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In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.
|
090 |
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Time is not a grid against which work can be measured, because the work is the measure itself.
|
090 |
