“Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well.” WayWellsCuttingMaterialsProductsPercentFlowLaborDirectWorkersProductionsCustomersProductivityClassicReducingRaw MaterialsConvertingInventoryQueues Author:James P. Womack
“I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.” LoveGivingYearsShareTalentBrotherBandDemandEqualGiving UpPercentOriginalsAgreePartnersMy BrotherEmployeeReducingDrummerLove My Brother Author:Rich Robinson
“And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.” IfsWayYearsMadeImportantCareGoalTermLevelsProgressHugeCostPercentImportant ThingsHealth CareInflationDeficitReducingHealth Care Costs Author:Barack Obama
“In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.” StillsIdeasEconomyMiddleTaxesPercentSpendingDisasterClimbingHikingUnemploymentReducingPrescriptionsRecessionsRaising Taxes Author:Joe Biden