March 2011

Can letting go get innovation under control?

Project planning in most organizations consists of identifying all of the tasks necessary to carry out a product development program, assembling them into a plan, estimating the time that each task will require, presenting the plan to management, revising the plan to reflect more aggressive targets requested by management, and then managing the project on [...]

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Should money be your company’s goal?

The Theory of Constraints holds that “the goal” of for-profit businesses is normally to make money both now and in the future. That’s certainly the case for most companies that I work with. But not always – there are successful businesses where money is not the goal. Note here that Iā€™m talking about goals – [...]

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