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I went to the gym this morning, April 1, and the gym’s owner, sole employee, and pretty much everyone’s personal trainer, Howie, asked me the same question he asks me every time I see him: “What’s your weight?”
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“Stayed the same,” I said, but jokingly added, “Actually, I’m ahead of the game because yesterday I skipped the ice cream and cake at the Easter dinner.”
“So what?” Howie asked. “Is that an improvement?”
“Not exactly,” I quipped, “but I’d call it “weight avoidance.”
Howie laughed. “Who are you kidding?”
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In Howie’s lean world, the one from which the lean production analogy is drawn, to make improvement you have to lift weight and lose weight. Neither is supposed to occur in a blitz, just a little bit every day.
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Total cost of decisions
Good article. What should matters is the overall impact of decisions. Seeing just one side of them is certainly misleading.
Dire Straits
It is not referred to the rock Band but to a "rock & roll" route, instead. Money gets tighter and tighter, in most cases; and fatter and fatter in a few others. As I understand Hamilton's issues, most entrepeneurs look at costs like Zarathustra looked at the Sun, according to Nietzsche and Richard Strauss interpretations. Such entrepeneurs will always be in dire straits, unless they move their eyes to different landscapes - such as social scenarios, that are not the least of all. To the extent management keeps being "the" commandment "make money", and leadership has less and less empowerment on social issues, therefore the World's future cannot be but a "black cloud". Thank you.
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