Hey gang. I just picked up Jim Benson's short book "Why Plans Fail" which talks about cognitive biases (Kahneman and Tversky). It's a fun read and a quick...
Here's something a little off topic related to Jim Benson's book. I just got off the phone with Amazon. I am a Prime member and went online to purchase....
Just to rile Tony... https://www.cassknowledge.com/research/article/case-multitasking *"We found that the financial performance of companies with highly ...
... so there is a good thing that people could do (try to not get weighted down emotionally such that decision making suffers due to analysis paralysis et....
oh sheesh ... now I have to start smoking. ... Clarke Ching - * Over 18,000 people have read "Rocks Into Gold" ... my biztech parable about Agile ... that...
... One of the elements they cite as being important is insight based on having quick access to information that is provided by interruptions and context...
... this i believe. if you are single-tasking in your cave / cubicle / parent's basement, you aren't going to do a good job; most people aren't really a Lone...
... I agree too, but multi-tasking is not the cause of this. It is the result. And as a result, it may be either a good or bad or neutral byproduct of the ...
... perhaps in other words, multitasking is perhaps a relative term. we'll always be multitasking. yes there's "level 1" vs. "type 2" etc. cue Mr. Leach....
Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines; correlation, not causation. If a company is very successful, with high demand for its services, then there will be a...
... I think you will be disappointed. In fact the examples they gave showed that the difference between the two groups were that in the non-multitask...
Let me illustrate a vignette of the prevailing bureaucracy in my team. In my project, I need the blessing of an Architecture Review Board (ARB) in order to...
Unless you have tremendous charisma and experience of TOC, I would recommend you don't rush into teaching mode and instead do your homework. Start on your own,...
In TOC there is a tool called the half baked solution - it use the Negative Branch process to shoe the impact of an action by others - are you aware of this...
The response is too complex for the trivial situation. The ARB is not going to hold a special session if it meets weekly anyway. The kiss of death for any...
hello, as a software developer, i appreciate the idea of not multitasking so i can focus on getting a single problem done at a time. on the other hand, i also...
Raoul- While you are poking at a key element of the Critical Chain thinking, your idea isn't as crazy as it sounds. At least to me. Rather than surviving on...
... i don't entirely disagree, even though i haven't yet had the good fortune of working some place or creating some place that is both financially successful...
Raoul Did you see this article? Five New Management Metrics You Need To Know This is a guest post from James Slavet of venture firm Greylock Partners. Slavet's...
For some reason the URL didn't come through correctly. http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/12/13/five-new-management-metrics-you-need-to-know/ or ...
Can you take a look at the Wikipedia entry on Contribution Margin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_margin#Examples, then tell me if this sentence...
I have my handy dandy "Management Dynamics, Merging Constraints Accounting to Drive Improvement" by John and Pamela Caspari next to me. In the Glossary...
Hello all, This is not a strictly TOC related question, so I apologize beforehand: wanted to tap into "the wisdom of crowds" of these lists. Does anybody ...
Santiago, a tool I use is The Brain. It allows you to do exactly what is reported in the PDF except quantitative analysis. I use something like this network...
Santiago, you found one of the best resources in terms of expertise and application of the technique - Valdis is a great guy. The challenge with ONA (which is...
Clarke I had a look in my Marginal costing book from 1946 under a section called the Theory of Marginal costing there is a diagram as follows: Product A Total...
Thanks Allan for your response. Have you proceeded with modifying the organizational structure as a result of this "social network analysis"? I'm curious of...
