Category: WORK
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When Politics is your only Tool
If politics gets things done, then we are in the wrong business. (particularly using Smoothing or deflection; instead of addressing…
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Planning is 20x harder than Documenting.
I have a promise that Documenting will take about 2-5% of total work output. Which is kinda true only because…
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Why is this our Problem?
Today I had to really really listen and really be patient. More patient than anyone has ever been for me,…
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Studies and work update
At chapter 8 of 12 of the PMBOK PMP study guide, 478 words, probably 8 grammar rules, wrote about 15,000…
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Monitoring first
to validate if we created processes correctly it reminds me of birds regurgitating food to chicks. We predigest it for…
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Gaming and Productivity
Have you ever used someone else’ combo? Someone’s technique as to make your current technique look like shit? That’s my…
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Product Development Dept and Process Trainer
Product Development and Process Trainer. Two roles that are important in a Production Company when they Go Lean and are…
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Perfect is the Enemy of Good or Progress.
Looking for feedback to improve this thesis. Any project of a man-week scale typically has too little resources or too…
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Mechanics, Criteria, and Methodology.
Give me a model, a set of criteria, or a sequence of steps to follow. If its relevant to my…
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Skill Template
My Skills Template I notice I’ve been improving my awareness of my skills and how I cultivate, improve on and…
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Setting up Processing Space; Simplifying Life
5S is pretty much setting up a process space. The requirements of a process space are: Accessibility. Everything you need…
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Just bought the ISO 9001:2015
It cost around 166CHF (which is supposed to be swiss franks), or 7,500php or around 150usd. Reasons I had to…
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ISO 9001:2015 Risk Mangement “Loophole” : Absence of Evidence does not Mean Evidence of Absence.
In ISO Risk (see Preventative Actions) is something that has not happened while Problems (see Corrective Actions) are something that…
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Finding Constraints, Work Bibliography, Metrics far removed from Causes, Fix as we Go
Finding Constraints chapter 6: Finding Constraints is the most detail I’ve read on looking for bottlenecks. And it begins with…
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Knowledge gets easier to keep, we build over it more frameworks
the implication of needing to only test for a piece of knowledge 1 in 10 days means in a week…
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Lean Personal Ops Life Skill
So SMART criteria and 5S are one of those conditioned skills that I find I’m using a lot more. SMART…
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So many wrong things with Nagging
I hate Random, Sporadic, Follow up methodology of getting tasks done AKA THE NAGGING METHOD. It tends to make people…
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Learning Skills, particularly New Skills.
Learning a New Skill: Key Metrics Document what you do/Do what you document – and adapt to changing conditions, and…
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Main Statement + Optional Clarification requires Goodfaith or Steelman
Sunday, 14 May, 2017 12:20:41 PM PHT main statement + Optional Clarification requires goodfaith or steelman Because its easy to…
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I draw from 1.5 hours of passive thinking for 1 hour of writing.
I’ve always assumed that the 300-400 words per hour composition is an oversimplification. That we draw from a lot of…
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Training by Routine
This is a result of my reflection of training at work, for myself, my son’s schooling, and my military history…
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Learning more from Operations Processes, than Self Help
So lately I find myself lately learning more from the CRM process book than from science book. When the wife…
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Knowledge to Action Plan
A knowledge book can best be measured by how well it puts knowledge into Action. We need to begin our…
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Portable desktop Reference Holder Prototype
My goal was to 5S my workflow. Have all the processes, references, hot-keys, techniques, notes, etc… accessible at a glance.…
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What would have been Different?
There are periods when work seems too daunting and I panic inside. When I panic I really want to escape…
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My Hypothesis of Memory
Spaced Repetition can also be described as Spaced Repeated Triggering. Spaced Repetition (SR) Works at a Kinesthesis and Perceptual level. …
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Testing Heuristic, Heuristic Documentation
Testing Heuristic Trigger. Uncertainty to the Best Approach Start in any method but keep a Short Feedback Loop. When in…
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Mental 5S
Mental 5S should have been one of the first things I learned growing up. Considering our mind as our primary…
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Hypothesis of Engaging Details
Hypothesis: That introducing details that serve the narrative in a way that helps us connect with complexity found in society,…
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Leadership Styles
I am annoyed when the idea of leadership or management is Ordering People around. Life and Work is just so…