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This website covers knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints, amongst other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.

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Nov 23
Nov 23 Check your assumptions

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continuous improvement, theory of constraints

Are you starting your change effort with a focus on evolution or on revolution? How does this impact your way of thinking about the change you need to create? How does it impact your thinking about other change efforts?

Nov 22
Nov 22 Cynefin and Systems Thinking

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continuous improvement, theory of constraints

Bill Dettmer has a new article on how management tools fit into the Cynefin framework. This builds on ideas I've heard directly from Dave Snowden as well as those discussed elsewhere by people interested in Cynefin as applied to various approaches.

Nov 21
Nov 21 Milestones everywhere don't help

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project management

Don't use milestones to manage your projects. Use buffers at key integration points and a project buffer at the end. This is a much more reasonable way to manage your project and the natural variability of execution.

Nov 19
Nov 19 Democratizing Innovation

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community, innovation, book review, knowledge management

Review of Eric Von Hippel's "Democratizing Innovation" which looks at the spread of user-inspired and user-created innovations throughout all industries. What creates it? What sustains it?

Nov 10
Nov 10 How do you treat your detractors?

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culture

Nov 4
Nov 4 Collaboration in the ether

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Nov 3
Nov 3 You can only do one thing at a time

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Nov 1
Nov 1 If change is continuous, what is there to manage?

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Nov 1
Nov 1 Behind the Cloud

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Oct 27
Oct 27 Not interested in yesterday

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Oct 24
Oct 24 Generations schmenerations

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Oct 24
Oct 24 Cost allocations are not for decision-making

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Oct 21
Oct 21 Spend the time to make it simple

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Oct 20
Oct 20 It isn't overload when it's information you want

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knowledge management, personal effectiveness

Oct 10
Oct 10 Kanban training

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event report, continuous improvement

Oct 7
Oct 7 As fast as prudent (Slack again)

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Oct 5
Oct 5 Do you hear that ticking?

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Oct 3
Oct 3 The Power of the 2x2 Matrix

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book review, business

Sep 27
Sep 27 Slacker!

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Sep 26
Sep 26 Culture is nebulous, focus on what you can change

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