Larry, I am going through a similar situation as well. I have found that identifying small specific tasks is a way to get started. Something amorphous on a...
Tony wrote: Do you really have to ask how to figure out what your wife perceives as the benefits of having a husband? That's another subject matter and the...
Hi Larry I have been thinking about you and some of the things you have asked about over the years after I read chapter 5 of "IS" yesterday, I've reread it...
Larry The issue of how to pay people on road construction was dealt with by Balfour Beatty when they started to use CC project management on a major UK truck...
Anyone has any thoughts on Glen's comment, below? I'm not looking to defend Eli G at all. I invented a project management called Clarke Ching's Project...
*Bryan Logan worked for twenty years for the Ulster Business School at the University of Ulster. He is a Jonah and he taught TOC as an elective module on the...
Larry, I was about to ask you several times before: What do you think of the "respect for people" principle in LEAN, TOC, etc versus Jack Welchs' style of...
At the risk of getting in over my head, this is pretty much the same as saying that Goldratt co-opted management accounting and repackaged it even though...
... This is pure and unadulterated Brown-25. If you're not familiar with Brown-25, rent the movie titled "The Boob Tube," which aired in 1975. Dr. E. M....
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Greetings from Lexington, KY. SAFUs continuue to dominate SNAFUs. Thursday when I went to pick up the trailer on which to two my...
BTW, CCPM+ does not allow the trend to go backward in time, because I only give credit on the % CC complete for critical chain tasks that are actually reported...
Hi, Joe You finish the task, and get on with life. If you wanted to handle that case with the measurement system, one can imagine various options to do so;...
Hi, Jay Thanks for your encouraging thoughts. Yes, in each case we can come up with little tasks up front to kick things off. Writing role descriptions and...
Larry Yes, we have a variety of approaches to the "task reported complete, that isn't" problem, and the choice depends on the context and sometimes, ...
Larry wrote: I am wondering if some of you have ideas on how to schedule what I am calling here "amorphous" tasks. I am particularly concerned with tasks that ...
Hi, Joe Ah, yes...the charging constraint. Larry -- In CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Bradley" ... complete, that ... required ... charging... ... to ...
Hi, Jim As I noted on the other list, I am sorry I missed your earlier post on this. I appreciate your effort to help. I think of it as one thing we are trying...
Greetings from Gilbert High School in Gilbert, SC. The physical part of the journey nears its conclusion. The U-Haul truck and trailer are empty and returned....
Hi, Jim Thanks for causing me to think a little more about intuition. I do not think it has anything to do with the amorphous task thread, so put this under a...
Hi Larry In the following post, to me you are making so many erroneous assumptions that it leaves me with the impression that in your current (negative) ...
Larry Good post. I agree with your conclusion, however a problem with your predicted effect argument is that it assumes that intuition and intelligence are...
Hello, Larry, About a year ago, I had a software problem that I solved by creating a little bit of technology. The technology automated a very tedious manual...
Hi, Larry, Maybe it’s only a question of sorting some obstacles and “practice, practice, practice” :-) Maybe we all do not have the appropiate mindset…...
... I have found that not all Jonah's are created equal... and that just as you have great auto mechanics, you have great Jonahs. A rare occurrence. Having...
Hi, Jim If by "negative mindset" you mean I am always seeking to falsify theories, thank you for that compliment. Regarding why I thought the material you...
Hi, Justin I agree there are many assumptions indeed, and my conclusion matches yours: there are other ingredients necessary to create breakthrough insights....
Hi, John Thanks for an excellent case. I suspect it is true that many breakthroughs happen more or less by accident; e.g. one aspect of your story, Post it...
Hi, Mario I do indeed agree it could be possible. De Bono and others (e.g. the TRIZ crowd) claim some successes by their clients. I don't know if they are of...
Larry Now you have now "peaked" my curiosity - what you have presented is one of the situations described in IS. That of blaming others when things do not go ...
