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Since you built it, they will come

January 30, 2012
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Since you built it, they will come

I suspect just as much work gets done just as well by those in small companies working in converted strip malls. I'm also certain good work gets done (especially in those white-collar industries where there are more knowledge workers who could work anywhere, any time) by people who are sitting on their couch, in a coffee shop, a library, or on the beach. After all, if you believe people are dedicated and intrinsically motivated, then you have little reason to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a building that adds nothing to the value of the...

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Understanding that Results are an absolute

December 21, 2011
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Understanding that Results are an absolute

As I continue to contemplate the machinations of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), I've had a few conversations recently with people who are trying to understand how ROWE works. While I am far fom an expert, I have come up with a few things in order to share my understanding.

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Guest Post on Shmula!

December 1, 2011
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Guest Post on Shmula!

I had a post featured on shmula.com  yesterday, once again examining the connection between Lean and ROWE.  Here’s a snippet: To most workers, Lean initiatives (and other improvement efforts) suffer from a critical flaw – that you are supposed to engage in them only once you get to work.  What isn’t addressed is that a lot of waste might come from just showing up. What if, instead of attendance, we focused only on the results?  What if where you work was irrelevant as long as the work got done?  What if meetings were optional, hours were idiosyncratic and people were...

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ROWE, Lean and the Shingo Model

November 22, 2011
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ROWE, Lean and the Shingo Model

While they are, perhaps, competing approaches to creating workplace change I do believe that ROWE and Lean compliment and reinforce each other much more than they contradict and weaken. I think this presents a tremendous opportunity to generate a new understanding of how to both bring about, and sutain, the workplace transformation that has been so inconsistent, and so elusive, for so long.

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“Results Only” means “Value Only”

November 21, 2011
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Saying that ROWE is only about working when you want, wear you want is like saying Lean is only about reducing inventories. Yes - the outcome of adopting the practices in either ROWE or Lean are freedom or waste reduction, respectively, but they are really just the byproducts of adopting a new operational philosophy. Or, in other words, if you change the mindset - you change the inputs and, consequently, different outputs (such as freedom and reduced waste) result.

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We know life is too short, so why are we letting it get wasted?

November 18, 2011
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We know life is too short, so why are we letting it get wasted?

What I've come to realize, is that we all waste an awful lot of time doing nothing value-added. When I say "time" (or anyone else for that matter) is being wasted, I start to think "life" instead. Every minute we spend just sitting - accomplishing nothing of value to anyone - is a minute of our lives lost and gone forever. It doesn't come back, it doesn't get recycled, it doesn't break down or compress and eventually turn into a diamond. It is just simply gone.

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That’s how we’ve always done it: Familiarity vs. functionality

November 14, 2011
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That’s how we’ve always done it: Familiarity vs. functionality

Kevin Meyer has been sharing his observations while on a recent trip through India and other Asian countries in several recent posts. The post "Another Waste of Transportation" caught my attention, and gave me reason to think about what we perceive as waste and value in our everyday lives. Doing as we've always done has to come under scrutiny, and a focus on where we spend too much time, money and energy on things that feel familiar but add no value needs to become a fundamental part of how we view the world.

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Lean for Life – Work Smoother, Not Harder – More Thoughts on Establishing Flow…

October 27, 2011
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Action Item: From a personal perspective, be sure that you regularly set and review your personal goals and objectives, such that you can easily understand the extent to which a given opportunity at work or an ‘extracurricular’ commitment aligns with what you value.

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More Mura Muri? (or, the reasons behind changing everything)

October 26, 2011
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More Mura Muri? (or, the reasons behind changing everything)

The truth is, the way we live our lives is broken. We see reformers in education, healthcare, management, personal organization, stress relief, motivation, and nearly every other area continuing to talk about ways to address the same things, over and over: Adjusting to an ever-changing, unpredictable world and finding a way to keep yourself, and others, from going crazy while doing it. Or, in other words: Mura and Muri.

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Lean for Life – Value, Overproduction Waste and the Triple Constraint Model at Work

October 19, 2011
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Lean for Life – Value, Overproduction Waste and the Triple Constraint Model at Work

So often we read in management or personal development books that we should look to exceed expectations or to go ‘above and beyond’ for our bosses or customer. But do our customers truly value all the ‘extra’ that you’ve provided if you’re no longer delivering exactly what they asked for?

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