Quotes
- 'simplicity is clarity of intent'
- Dan North
- 'We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.'
- Ana Nin
- 'It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.'
- Geoffrey F. Abert, 1079-1142 French Philosopher Priest
- 'Teamwork is at the heart of Toyota. We believe in mutual trust and respect across all levels of the organisation.'
- --from a Toyota graduate recruitment campaign
- 'meh!!'
- Gus Power, At least twice daily whilst dealing with Maven 2 msp
- 'We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.'
- C. S. Lewis
- '..no recipe but experience, flexibility, curiosity and down-to-earth good sense. ... delegating projects ... placing more trust in them than they theoretically should be entitled to'
- Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO TAG Heuer
- 'Don't make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don't hesitate to make it beautiful.'
- Shaker - furniture makers
- 'However, there's a final and very serious paradox inherent in introducing thinking in real organisations to pursue perfection. The techniques themselves and the philosophy are inherently egalitarian and open. Transparency in everything is a key principle. Policy deployment operates as an open process to align people and resources with improvement tasks. And massive and continuing amounts of problem solving are conducted by teams of employees who historically have not even talked to each other, much less treated each other as equals'
- James P. Womack & Daniel P. Jones (Lean Thinking; Smashing Inertia to Get Started - Perfection, p.97)
- 'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
- 'Lean thinking is profoundly corrosive of hierarchy and some people just don't seem to be able to make the adjustment'
- Art Byrne, lean change agent for Wiremould
- 'dead wrong'
- James P. Womack & Daniel P. Jones, referring the to the widely held functional/departmental viewpoint whereby activities ought to be grouped by type for efficiency
- '...taking away the fear of job loss is at the very core of lean conversion'
- Art Byrne, lean change agent for Wiremould
- 'I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design- One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.'
- Sir Tony Hoare
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