“before an improvement team can eliminate batching or reduce batch sizes, it needs to understand and eliminate the reason (root cause) for the batching”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“Ideally, the team designs a future state the results in lower lead time, lower process time, and higher percent complete and accurate for every process block.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“ways to achieve flow . . . include shifting previously consecutive processes to parallel activities, combining tasks to reduce handoffs (which may require cross-training, resequencing, or repatterning work so that downstream recipients can so more effective work), resequencing work, and creating service-level agreements between internal suppliers and customers, to name a few.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.”
Source: Garcia : An American Life
“And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore.”
Source: Tristan and Iseult
“I have many lovers.
Where ever I look, I find them.
There is no place devoid of them.
They are everywhere:
In the enchanting Cottonwood trees,
The rivers, the rocky roads, the hills, the mystic trails,
The snow capped mountains,
The skies, the clouds, the soaring Eagles,
The blackness of night, as black as the Raven,
The absolute brave Cactus,
Listening to me, and the whispers I breathe.
Where ever I, look I find them.
There is no place devoid of them.
My lovers are everywhere.
They are everywhere:
In the rains, the freezing winds,
The sun, the moonlight,
The darkness of despair,
The days of pain and sorrow,
They never leave me, or betray me,
Or ever forsake me,
Even in my unfaithfulness,
They remain mine.
Am I blessed, crazy, or blind?
However much I dare,
Even in those careless moments; they care.
Where ever I look, I find them,
There is no place devoid of them,
My lovers are everywhere.
They are everywhere:
I close my eye’s, I see them,
They appear to me patiently,
like some ancient melody,
in my waking dreams, they are like wise prophets,
twirling in compassionate dances of forgiveness.
Allowing me my mistakes of existence,
They give me, ‘me’,
Reach for my fears, cradle and hold me.
They are everywhere.
I will regenerate,
and shine through their presence.
Through their guidance, from their quiet empowerment,
I will gather myself, pick up my pride,
Understand ‘life’, and remember reality.
Finally, when my ‘being’ remains not with me,
they will once again redefine, re-collect me,
recreate the aura around me,
find another place to replant me.
They are everywhere.
No place is devoid of them.
Countless lovers.
Their love: Omnipresent.
Only if one can ‘see’,
These lovers are everywhere .”
Source: Soul Fire- A Mystical Journey through Poetry
“Identify yourself,” Colleen demanded. “I’ve got a bat and I will beat the living shit out of you if you so much as blink. I’ve got a black belt,” she lied frantically, “and…and…a gun. A big one.” - Colleen O’Brien”
“Die Kirche muss erkennen, dass sich die Erde weiter dreht. Nachdem wir es immerhin geschafft haben, zu akzeptieren, dass sie sich überhaupt dreht”
“Formende Zucht dient dazu, den Jünger durch Lehre zu formen. Korrektive Zucht (das, was landläufig unter Gemeindezucht verstanden wird) dient dazu, den Jünger durch Korrektur von Sünde wieder auf den rechten Weg zu bringen.”
Source: Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus