Quotes About Process

You know what your problem is?" Erik says, pointing a finger at John. "You never see the end-to-end business process, so I guarantee you that many of the controls you want to put in aren't even necessary.

We're like the Bates Motel of changes," I say in disbelief. "Changes go in but never come out. Within a month, we'll have thousands of changes that we'll be carrying around, all competing to get implemented.

In hindsight, we now know that WIP is one of the root causes for chronic due-date problems, quality issues, and expediters having to rejuggle priorities every day. It's

By seeing problems as they occur and swarming them until effective countermeasures are in place, we continually shorten and amplify our feedback loops, a core tenet of virtually all modern process improvement methodologies. This maximizes the opportunities for our organization to learn and improve.

In any value stream, there is always a direction of flow, and there is always one and only one constraint; any improvement not made at that constraint is an illusion." If

This process of applying stress to increase resilience was named antifragility by author and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

According to Lean, our most important customer is our next step downstream.

any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion. Astonishing, but true! Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless, because it will always remain starved, waiting for work from the bottleneck. And any improvements made before the bottleneck merely results in more inventory piling up at the bottleneck.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

I account for morality as an accidental capability produced, in its boundless stupidity, by a biological process that is normally opposed to the expression of such a capability.

As in the inflammations and fevers of physical illness, what looks like trouble may be the very process by which healing takes place. As we become better able to endure life's slings and arrows, our coping mechanisms mature, and vice versa.

The selection process at the best schools is presently designed not to find the best minds but rather to find minds already shaped to the culture and ideology the universities regard as being able to benefit from their education.

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.

I]f I know that it is only by this process that the intended operation can be performed, then to say that if I fully will the operation, I also will the action required for it, is an analytical proposition...

in the ordinary course of a healthy labour, the mouth of the uterus opens by some secret agency; or at least without any apparent force.

When she starts to understand that being amused and grateful actually moves the process of labor along more efficiently, she starts to work toward these feelings herself. Hard work may continue, but she now has the heart for it. Instead of fearing her body, she experiments with trusting it.

Four or five false starts are not unusual. Such a pattern is perfectly normal and poses no extra risk to the baby if the water bag has not broken. So why not wait? There is nothing to lose.

De repente echa a correr por su vida De repente tiene una palabra que es suficiente De repente da todo por sentado De repente sabe exactamente lo que quiere La verdad es un proceso que se quiere ocultar pero nadie puede ocultar un fragmentado proceso

I think Otto will be rather relieved to be certain that you know. He doesn't enjoy deception. I choose the words carefully. He hasn't the least objection to deception. He just doesn't like the process of being found out. It's bad for his nerves