Bullshit Jobs – What About Bullshit Projects?

Bullshit Jobs is the title of David Graeber’s book1. Graeber writes, “it’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.”… “In capitalism this is precisely what is not supposed to happen.”2 Graeber uses the PPI scandal in the UK as an example of how
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The Quickest Way to Improved Flow 2: Fixing the right mistakes

In the first part of this series, we explained why flow should be the main goal of every organization, and introduced the Four Concepts of Flow developed by Dr. Goldratt. Let us now look at how Dr. Barnard questioned and expanded on them.1 Proponents of the Theory of Constraints will no doubt wonder: what happened
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The Quickest Way to Improved Flow 1: Flow as the Main Goal of Operations

The importance of “Flow” – that is, the unimpeded flow of work through operations – crops up again and again in our work – you may have seen previous posts on the topic on this blog. Dr. Alan Barnard, CEO of Goldratt Research Labs, dedicated an interesting presentation1 to this concept at the most recent
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